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"Commute book for when I don’t have my paperback Dostoevsky. Seneca is still as helpful as I found him years ago (maybe little character development on my part?)." — Nov 16, 2025 10:37PM
"Commute book for when I don’t have my paperback Dostoevsky. Seneca is still as helpful as I found him years ago (maybe little character development on my part?)." — Nov 16, 2025 10:37PM
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"Bratja! Oh Brothers! Honestly have a lot of high hopes for this one - everyone I’ve talked to has hyped up Brothers Karamazov." — Nov 11, 2025 06:31AM
"Bratja! Oh Brothers! Honestly have a lot of high hopes for this one - everyone I’ve talked to has hyped up Brothers Karamazov." — Nov 11, 2025 06:31AM
I guess I've grown up a little, it's all relative anyway, nine years is as long as forty years depending on how long you've lived.
“In that book which is my memory,
On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you,
Appear the words, ‘Here begins a new life’.”
― Vita Nuova
On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you,
Appear the words, ‘Here begins a new life’.”
― Vita Nuova
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
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“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“In the Book of Life, The answers aren't in the back.”
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