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As every choice becomes a pseudo-choice and mankind becomes increasingly alienated from reality, the result is that the world becomes banal. The more banal things become, the more the spectacle affirms their importance and vitality, the
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“Many people who have progressively lowered their personal standards in an attempt to win social acceptance and life’s comforts bitterly resent those of philosophical bent who refuse to compromise their spiritual ideals and who seek to better themselves.”
― The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness
― The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness
“Our hearts are not stones. A stone may disintegrate in time and lose its outward form. But hearts never disintegrate. They have no outward form, and whether good or evil, we can always communicate them to one another.”
― After the Quake
― After the Quake
“Yes, of course we were pretentious -- what else is youth for?”
― The Sense of an Ending
― The Sense of an Ending
“People hurt the ones they love. That's how it is all around the world.”
― The Green Mile
― The Green Mile
“When you read a great book, you don’t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. There may be a superficial escape – into different countries, mores, speech patterns – but what you are essentially doing is furthering your understanding of life’s subtleties, paradoxes, joys, pains and truths. Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic.”
― A Life with Books
― A Life with Books
Udit’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Udit’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
336 books
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14 friends
71 books
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13 friends
29 books
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29 friends
7 books
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52 friends
0 books
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80 friends
3 books
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84 friends
1 book
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30 friends
1 book
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48 friends
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