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“Today only the person who no longer believes in a happy ending, only he who has consciously renounced it, is able to live. A happy century does not exist; but there are moments of happiness, and there is freedom in the moment.”
― The Glass Bees
― The Glass Bees
“Habent sua fata libelli et balli [Books and bullets have their own destinies]”
― Storm of Steel
― Storm of Steel
“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
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“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
“All other trades are contained in that of war.
Is that why war endures?
No. It endures because young men love it and old men love it in them. Those that fought, those that did not.
That's your notion.
The judge smiled. Men are born for games. Nothing else. Every child knows that play is nobler than work. He knows too that the worth or merit of a game is not inherent in the game itself but rather in the value of that which is put at hazard. Games of chance require a wager to have meaning at all. Games of sport involve the skill and strength of the opponents and the humiliation of defeat and the pride of victory are in themselves sufficient stake because they inhere in the worth of the principals and define them. But trial of chance or trial of worth all games aspire to the condition of war for here that which is wagered swallows up game, player, all.”
― Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
Is that why war endures?
No. It endures because young men love it and old men love it in them. Those that fought, those that did not.
That's your notion.
The judge smiled. Men are born for games. Nothing else. Every child knows that play is nobler than work. He knows too that the worth or merit of a game is not inherent in the game itself but rather in the value of that which is put at hazard. Games of chance require a wager to have meaning at all. Games of sport involve the skill and strength of the opponents and the humiliation of defeat and the pride of victory are in themselves sufficient stake because they inhere in the worth of the principals and define them. But trial of chance or trial of worth all games aspire to the condition of war for here that which is wagered swallows up game, player, all.”
― Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
Chris’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Chris’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
50 books
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148 friends
545 books
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54 friends
10 books
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32 friends
5 books
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46 friends
1 book
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31 friends
112 books
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13 friends
2 books
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1 friend
2 books
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91 friends
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