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“That’s the difference between crime and business. For business you gotta have capital. Sometimes I think it’s the only difference.”
― The Big Sleep and Other Novels
― The Big Sleep and Other Novels
“All war is a thing of terror, and there is no choice in it.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“The sincerity of foulness pleases us, and rests the soul. When one has passed one's time in enduring upon earth the spectacle of the great airs which reasons of state, the oath, political sagacity, human justice, professional probity, the austerities of situation, incorruptible robes all assume, it solaces one to enter a sewer and to behold the mire which befits it.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“Philosophy is the microscope of the thought.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“Peoples, like planets, possess the right to an eclipse. And all is well, provided that the light returns and that the eclipse does not degenerate into night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is identical with the persistence of the I.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
Joel’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Joel’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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41 friends
720 books
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507 books
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87 friends
634 books
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50 friends
1,308 books
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60 books
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42 books
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121 books
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51 friends
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