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“Don’t aim at success—the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s dedication to a
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“He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back.”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451
“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
― Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
“The more one forgets himself—by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love—the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“School is shortened, discipline relaxed, philosophies, histories, languages dropped, English and spelling gradually neglected, finally almost completely ignored. Life is immediate, the job counts, pleasure lies all about after work. Why learn anything save pressing buttons, pulling switches, fitting nuts and bolts?”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451
“Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
Long’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Long’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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488 friends
104 books
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266 friends
28 books
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81 friends
344 books
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72 friends
251 books
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24 friends
35 books
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117 friends
9 books
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238 friends
7 books
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33 friends
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