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“Remember that there are only three kinds of things anyone need ever do. (1) Things we ought to do (2) Things we've got to do (3) Things we like doing. I say this because some people seem to spend so much of their time doing things for none of these three reasons, things like reading books they don't like because other people read them.”
― Letters to Children
― Letters to Children
“And how could we endure to live and let time pass if we were always crying for one day or one year to come back--if we did not know that every day in a life fills the whole life with expectation and memory and that these are that day?”
― Out of the Silent Planet
― Out of the Silent Planet
“No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they conform to Reason or fail to conform. The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.”
― The Abolition of Man
― The Abolition of Man
“He had always disliked the people who encored a favorite air in an opera—“That just spoils it” had been his comment. But this now appeared to him as a principle of far wider application and deeper moment. This itch to have things over again, as if life were a film that could be unrolled twice or even made to work backward . . . was it possibly the root of all evil? No: of course the love of money was called that. But money itself—perhaps one valued it chiefly as a defense against chance, a security for being able to have things over again, a means of arresting the unrolling of the film. He”
― The Space Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength
― The Space Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength
Alyssa’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Alyssa’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
362 books
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166 friends
1,619 books
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58 friends
2,410 books
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14 friends
1,022 books
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128 friends
229 books
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79 friends
146 books
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80 friends
1 book
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55 friends
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