“Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.”
― Selected Essays: 1917-1932
― Selected Essays: 1917-1932
“And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.”
― The Dharma Bums
― The Dharma Bums
“It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.”
― Siddhartha
― Siddhartha
Jesse’s 2024 Year in Books
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