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“When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. That's the consolation of philosophy.”
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“Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
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“There's good self-consciousness, and then there's toxic, paralyzing, raped-by-psychic-Bedouins self-consciousness.”
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“That's what art is: escaping everyday normality, which wants to eat you alive.”
― Margherita Dolce Vita
― Margherita Dolce Vita
“Time passed. But time flows in many streams. Like a river, an inner stream of time will flow rapidly at some places and sluggishly at others, or perhaps even stand hopelessly stagnant. Cosmic time is the same for everyone, but human time differs with each person. Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.”
― Beauty and Sadness
― Beauty and Sadness
Asmus’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Asmus’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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206 books
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