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Meng Liu
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“Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.”
― The Complete Essays
― The Complete Essays
“He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.”
― The Complete Essays
― The Complete Essays
“Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.”
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“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
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“To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death of its strangeness, let us frequent it, let us get used to it; let us have nothing more often in mind than death... We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere."
"To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.”
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"To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.”
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Meng’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Meng’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,158 books
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210 friends
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Favorite Genres
Biography, Classics, Fiction, History, Memoir, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Travel, childrens, and picture-books
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