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“Thought he, it's a wicked world in all meridians; I'll die a pagan.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“From Plato: the man who has an elevated mind and takes a view of all time and of all substance, dost thou suppose it possible for him to think that human life is anything great? It is not possible, he said. Such a man then will think that death also is no evil.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“Life is no way to treat an animal.”
― A Man Without a Country
― A Man Without a Country
“Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world always outweighs the pleasure. If you don't believe it, compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is eating the other.”
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“I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
Derek’s 2025 Year in Books
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