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“Mature love is loving, not being loved.”
― Existential Psychotherapy
― Existential Psychotherapy
“Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”
― The Last Wish
― The Last Wish
“Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.”
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“We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent — people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save.”
― To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche
― To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche
“PIPPIN: I didn't think it would end this way.
GANDALF: End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it.
PIPPIN: What? Gandalf? See what?
GANDALF: White shores, and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise.
PIPPIN: Well, that isn't so bad.
GANDALF: No. No, it isn't.”
― The Lord of the Rings
GANDALF: End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it.
PIPPIN: What? Gandalf? See what?
GANDALF: White shores, and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise.
PIPPIN: Well, that isn't so bad.
GANDALF: No. No, it isn't.”
― The Lord of the Rings
Magna’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Magna’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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40 friends
298 books
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671 books
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105 books
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269 books
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161 books
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41 books
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201 books
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172 friends
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