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Carlos
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thirty-two-year-old had brought a vast array of the best instruments from Europe. For the ascent of Chimborazo,
“Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.
{Letter to his son and 6th US president, John Quincy Adams, November 13 1816}”
― The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
{Letter to his son and 6th US president, John Quincy Adams, November 13 1816}”
― The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
“Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
“Power, time, gravity, love. The forces that really kick ass are all invisible.”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
“As your perspective of the world increases not only is the pain it inflicts on you less but also its meaning. Understanding the world requires you to take a certain distance from it.”
― My Struggle: Book 1
― My Struggle: Book 1
“Once she’d remarked, for example, that the problem, even for socialist countries, is that those people who are deeply committed to ideals of any sort are unlikely to hold power; political power goes to those who will do whatever needs to be done to amass it, for whom non-pragmatic ethical commitments don’t much register.”
― New Year's: Nathaniel P. as Seen Through the Eyes of His Friend Aurit
― New Year's: Nathaniel P. as Seen Through the Eyes of His Friend Aurit
Jorge Luis Borges
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Borges, of all the authors, does not yet have a group on Goodreads. What? He does. Now.
Carlos’s 2025 Year in Books
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