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Mother Nature is a brutal bitch, red in tooth and claw, who destroys what she creates. We live, he says, in a creation in which the routine activity for organisms is “tearing others apart with teeth of all types—biting, grinding flesh,
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“my teacher read me "The Chambered Nautilus," and showed me that the shell-building process of the mollusks is symbolical of the development of the mind. Just as the wonder-working mantle of the Nautilus changes the material it absorbs from the water and makes it a part of itself, so the bits of knowledge one gathers undergo a similar change and become pearls of thought.”
― The Story of My Life
― The Story of My Life
“And Spaceship Earth, that glorious and bloody circus, continued its four-billion-year-long spiral orbit about the Sun; the engineering, I must admit, was so exquisite that none of the passengers felt any motion at all. Those on the dark side of the ship mostly slept and voyaged into worlds of freedom and fantasy; those on the light side moved about the tasks appointed for them by their rulers, or idled waiting for the next order from above.”
― The Illuminatus! Trilogy
― The Illuminatus! Trilogy
“If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.”
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“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.”
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“It is fateful and ironic how the lie we need in order to live dooms us to a life that is never really ours.”
― The Denial of Death
― The Denial of Death
Joshua’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Joshua’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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