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"How does anyone read this? This is like reading the bible, so complex so dense. I love it but it is just so mentally draining it's hard to pick back up. Let's try and finish it this year (I started in December!)." — Feb 23, 2026 11:58AM
"How does anyone read this? This is like reading the bible, so complex so dense. I love it but it is just so mentally draining it's hard to pick back up. Let's try and finish it this year (I started in December!)." — Feb 23, 2026 11:58AM
Fear is the expression of not wanting pain after poor results; hope is the expression of wanting happiness from good results.
“This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.”
― Speaker for the Dead
― Speaker for the Dead
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― 1984
― 1984
“I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them.”
― Ender's Game
― Ender's Game
“Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.”
― Ender's Game
― Ender's Game
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