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It was nine o’clock at night and Tremaine was trying to find a way to kill herself that would bring in a verdict of natural causes in court when someone banged on the door.
“We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.”
― The Weight of Glory
― The Weight of Glory
“I have received no assurance that anything we can do will eradicate suffering. I think the best results are obtained by people who work quietly away at limited objectives, such as the abolition of the slave trade, or prison reform, or factory acts, or tuberculosis, not by those who think they can achieve universal justice, or health, or peace. I think the art of life consists in tackling each immediate evil as well as we can.”
― The Weight of Glory
― The Weight of Glory
“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
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“The most common form of despair is not being who you are.”
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“Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.”
― The Weight of Glory
― The Weight of Glory
Deb’s 2025 Year in Books
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289 books
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56 books
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510 books
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324 books
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1 book
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131 friends
104 books
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139 books
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53 friends
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