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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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“beneath this crust, hundreds of fathoms down, there teems a world of checkered life in all its changing forms, a world of the same composition as ours, with the same instincts, the same sorrows, and also, no doubt, the same joys; everywhere the same struggle for existence. So it ever is. If we penetrate within even the hardest shell we come upon the pulsations of life, however thick the crust may be.”
― Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I
― Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I
“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.”
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“The neurotic opts out of life because he is having trouble maintaining his illusions about it, which proves nothing less than that life is possible only with illusions.”
― The Denial of Death
― The Denial of Death
“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
“Here's to the good nuns for telling me what books NOT to read!”
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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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223 books
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299 friends
159 books
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1,183 books
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372 books
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89 friends
14,569 books
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612 books
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38 friends
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