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“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
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“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.”
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“You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed with sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafes.”
― The Sun Also Rises
― The Sun Also Rises
“The supreme mystery of despotism, its prop and stay, is to keep men in a state of deception, and with the specious title of religion to cloak the fear by which they must be held in check, so that they will fight for their servitude as if for salvation.”
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“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
Rifat’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Rifat’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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1,970 friends
857 books
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245 friends
310 books
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189 books
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900 friends
264 books
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156 friends
2,411 books
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566 friends
321 books
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45 friends
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