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“Did no one ever tell you that when two females engage in idle chatter, the demon Tutivillus appears and pushes their heads together so they jabber all the more? Then he copies their every vain word on his scroll and reads it back to them
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“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before,” Bokonon tells us. “He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.”
― Cat's Cradle
― Cat's Cradle
“It was lovely. Not to be stared at, not seen, but being pulled into view by the interested, uncritical eyes of the other.”
― Beloved
― Beloved
“If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.”
― The Perennial Philosophy
― The Perennial Philosophy
“Aging is a constant loss; all the things considered essential in youth prove with time that they are not. Skins are shed, and left at the roadside for the new young to pick up and carry on.”
― Matrix
― Matrix
“The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim. An individual in a crowd is a grain of sand amid other grains of sand, which the wind stirs up at will.”
― سيكولوجية الجماهير
― سيكولوجية الجماهير
Abby’s 2025 Year in Books
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