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We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
“The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny, and it is useless for the innocent to try by reasoning to get justice, when the oppressor intends to be unjust.”
― Aesop's Fables
― Aesop's Fables
“Undoubtedly philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.”
― Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World
― Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World
“There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.”
― The Time Machine
― The Time Machine
“The more men have to lose, the less willing are they to venture. The rich are in general slaves to fear, and submit to courtly power with the trembling duplicity of a Spaniel.”
― Common Sense
― Common Sense
“Descend, bold traveler, into the crater of the jokul of Sneffels, which the shadow of Scartaris touches before the calends of July, and you will attain the center of the earth. Which I have done, Arne Saknussemm.”
― Journey to the Center of the Earth
― Journey to the Center of the Earth
Gabriel’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Gabriel’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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111 friends
39 books
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326 books
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4 books
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34 friends
270 books
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110 books
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23 friends
172 books
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47 friends
55 books
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25 friends
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