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“Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...”
― Black Boy
― Black Boy
“Sometimes standing on the wrong side of history in defense of a cause you think is right is still just standing on the wrong side of history,”
― Unjust: Social Justice and the Unmaking of America
― Unjust: Social Justice and the Unmaking of America
“Life is not so idiotically mathematical that only the big eat the small; it is just as common for a bee to kill a lion or at least to drive it mad.”
― Miss Julie
― Miss Julie
“And it has always been a mystery, and I've marveled a thousand times at this ability of man (and, it seems, of the Russian man above all) to cherish the highest ideal in his soul alongside the greatest baseness, and all that in perfect sincerity. --The Adolescent (or, The Raw Youth)”
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“It is difficult to resist the conclusion that 20th century man has decided to abolish himself, tired of the struggle to be himself, he has created boredom out of his own affluence, impotence out of his own erotomania and vulnerability out of his own strength. He himself blows the trumpet that brings the walls of his own cities crashing down, until at last having educated himself into imbecility, having drugged and polluted himself into stupefaction, he keels over a weary old Brontosaurus and becomes extinct.”
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Kevin’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Kevin’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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324 books
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132 books
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63 books
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313 books
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2,168 books
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89 friends
66 books
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