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Meng Liu
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“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
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“My art and profession is to live.”
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“To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.”
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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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“I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.”
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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
492 books
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24 friends
293 books
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4 friends
3 books
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45 friends
87 books
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63 friends
1 book
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103 friends
4 books
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9 friends
12 books
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13 friends
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Favorite Genres
Biography, Classics, Fiction, History, Memoir, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Travel, childrens, and picture-books
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