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“We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.”
― Cosmos
― Cosmos
“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”
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“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms...”
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“Chance favors the prepared mind.”
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“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”
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Koszta’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Koszta’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,164 books
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239 friends
1,054 books
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15 friends
575 books
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126 friends
125 books
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96 friends
577 books
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57 friends
74 books
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5 friends
401 books
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52 friends
52 books
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4 friends
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