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“I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there - that is living.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“The sun just touched the morning;
The morning, happy thing,
Supposed that he had come to dwell,
And life would be all spring.”
― The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
The morning, happy thing,
Supposed that he had come to dwell,
And life would be all spring.”
― The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
“Yet how strange a thing is the beauty of music! The brief beauty that the player brings into being transforms a given period of time into pure continuance; it is certain never to be repeated; like the existence of dayflies and other such short-lived creatures, beauty is a perfect abstraction and creation of life itself. Nothing is so similar to life as music.”
― The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
― The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
“You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.”
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“Dreams, memories, the sacred--they are all alike in that they are beyond our grasp. Once we are even marginally separated from what we can touch, the object is sanctified; it acquires the beauty of the unattainable, the quality of the miraculous. Everything, really, has this quality of sacredness, but we can desecrate it at a touch. How strange man is! His touch defiles and yet he contains the source of miracles.”
― Spring Snow
― Spring Snow
Chris’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Chris’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
662 books
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10 friends
1,171 books
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486 friends
263 books
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268 books
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10 friends
537 books
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53 friends
Favorite Genres
Art, Classics, Fiction, History, Music, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Spirituality, and Japanese Literature
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