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‘Anything is possible,’ I said. ‘But most things are unlikely.’
“Whoever said the soul and the body met in the pineal gland was a fool. It's the asshole, stupid.”
― Call Me by Your Name
― Call Me by Your Name
“We study history not to know the future but to widen our horizons, to understand that our present situation is neither natural nor inevitable, and that we consequently have many more possibilities before us than we imagine.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“Try not to be self-conscious […] or so critical. Don’t mope around looking for someone else to make you happy, and remember that the vast majority of homosexuals are looking for a superman to love and find it very difficult to love anyone merely human, which we unfortunately happen to be.”
― Dancer from the Dance
― Dancer from the Dance
“The point is that we are not doomed because we are homosexual, my dear, we are doomed only if we live in despair because of it, as we did on the beaches and the streets of Suck City.”
― Dancer from the Dance
― Dancer from the Dance
“To draw an analogy: a man’s suffering is similar to the behavior of gas. If a certain quantity of gas is pumped into an empty chamber, it will fill the chamber completely and evenly, no matter how big the chamber. Thus suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great or little. Therefore the “size” of human suffering is absolutely relative.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
Socrates’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Socrates’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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