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“Art is always tempted to glory in itself, and nearly every form of art has been used to communicate values that are contrary to Scripture. Art is as fallen as any other aspect of human existence. This fallenness perverts the arts against fulfilling their original purpose and prevents us from embracing them uncritically.”
― Art for God's Sake: A Call to Recover the Arts
― Art for God's Sake: A Call to Recover the Arts
“Oh! but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire, secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.”
― A Christmas Carol
― A Christmas Carol
“Beauty is not the source of disinterested pleasure, but simply the object of a universal interest: the interest that we have in beauty, and in the pleasure that beauty brings.”
― Beauty: A Very Short Introduction
― Beauty: A Very Short Introduction
“Dudley thought for a moment. It looked like hard work.”
― Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
― Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
“Will not the good man, who says whatever he says with a view to the best, speak with a reference to some standard and not at random; just as all other artists, whether the painter, the builder, the shipwright, or any other look all of them to their own work, and do not select and apply at random what they apply, but strive to give a definite form to it?”
― Gorgias
― Gorgias
Jacob Allee’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jacob Allee’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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60 friends
955 books
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528 books
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39 friends
134 books
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95 friends
1,680 books
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352 friends
90 books
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481 friends
128 books
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96 friends
1,524 books
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