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“Constantly defining yourself in opposition to what others say about you is not self-knowledge. It’s confusion.”
― Homeland Elegies
― Homeland Elegies
“In America, though, life seems to move faster than anywhere else on the globe and each generation is promised more than it will get: which creates, in each generation, a furious, bewildered rage, the rage of people who cannot find solid ground beneath their feet.”
― Notes of a Native Son
― Notes of a Native Son
“Life in the world... was nothing more than a system of atavistic contracts, banal ceremonies, preordained words, with which people entertained each other in society in order not to commit murder. The dominant sign in that paradise of provincial frivolity was fear of the unknown.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
“This explained the world they lived in; the murderers were willing to kill to get their way. In a fight between sociopathic sick wounded angry fucked-up wicked people, and all the rest of them, not just the good and the brave but the ordinary and weak, the sheep who just wanted to get by, the fuckers always won.”
― The Ministry for the Future
― The Ministry for the Future
Dimitri Rousseau’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Dimitri Rousseau’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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3,294 friends
237 books
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54 friends
794 books
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58 friends
80 books
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241 books
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59 friends
207 books
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720 books
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80 friends
208 books
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15 friends
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