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Her knitting needles rested in a leather pouch in pairs, two matching sticks of wood, side by side like the delicate bones of the wrist wrapped in dried and ancient flesh.
“Sleep was a vehicle for passing the time, for avoiding the present. It was a trolley for the depressed, the impatient, and the dying.”
― Dust
― Dust
“Time is the most valuable thing. That’s what people say. This seems undisputable on the surface, I suppose; but fundamentally, I don’t know if time is inherently any more valuable than anything else. With no one to spend it, time means nothing.”
― Notes from the End of Everything
― Notes from the End of Everything
“Language and thought are but absurd abstractions of an already absurd and abstract reality.”
― Notes from the End of Everything
― Notes from the End of Everything
“The value of one’s time should not be predicated on anyone else’s preference for how it should be spent, as if anyone truly knew. ”
― Notes from the End of Everything
― Notes from the End of Everything
“To properly spend one’s time, one needs enough time to evaluate time properly. To try as many things, go through as many different processes, experience different lifestyles, visit different places, live with different people, and so on. But there is not even close to enough time to do a fraction of any of this. And so we all meander through our absurd lives, filling our time with endeavors, pursuits, and activities, not because we know that it’s what we want to do, nor what we should do, but because we have time and it must be spent.”
― Notes from the End of Everything
― Notes from the End of Everything
Steve Smith’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Steve Smith’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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77 friends
2,406 books
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170 friends
35 books
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27 friends
103 books
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39 friends
1 book
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83 friends
62 books
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78 friends
0 books
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30 friends
29 books
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155 friends
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