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“Don’t aim at success—the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s dedication to a
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“I knew that if I could get her to choose just one new habit, she’d get hooked, and all the other behaviors would naturally fall into line.”
― The Compound Effect
― The Compound Effect
“Like all great press men, he really believed the drivel he published. His talent was to express his readers’ most stupid and ignorant prejudices as if they made sense, so that the shameful seemed respectable. That was why they bought the paper.”
― Fall of Giants
― Fall of Giants
“Where do all the things you believed go, when all the supporting structure is found to be a myth? How do you know how or on what to take a moral stand, how do you behave when it turns out there are no cosmic rules, no categorical imperatives? It was difficult.”
― A Short Stay in Hell
― A Short Stay in Hell
“Your trademark approach, no unproven assumptions, is the one we must take to properly paint an intimate understanding of God in your mind.”
― Leonardo and Gabriel: A historical thriller with a jaw-dropping twist that will change your life
― Leonardo and Gabriel: A historical thriller with a jaw-dropping twist that will change your life
“But let me tell you what I know, what I’ve concluded: it doesn’t matter whether time passes slowly or quickly. What you can be sure of is that, in the end, all you want is to have more. More of those lazy afternoons when nothing happens, despite your best efforts to the contrary. More of those annoying arms that picked you up to stop you doing something crazy. More tellings-off from the mother who you thought was a nag. More glimpses, even, of your father hurrying somewhere, always busy. More soft embraces from the wife who loved you all your life, and more trusting looks from your children’s young eyes.”
― The Murmur of Bees
― The Murmur of Bees
Aaron’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Aaron’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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158 friends
191 books
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82 books
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473 books
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64 books
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138 books
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78 friends
312 books
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202 friends
481 books
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77 friends
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