William Smith

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William’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (154)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (1056)
did-not-finish‎ (0)
politics‎ (175)
modern-classics‎ (155)
popular-non-fiction‎ (132)
classics‎ (129)
biographies-memoirs‎ (95)
neuroscience-psychology‎ (79)
philosophy‎ (77)
american-history‎ (64)

european-history‎ (63)
russian-literature‎ (56)
science-fiction‎ (56)
biology‎ (54)
economics‎ (50)
miscellaneous-literature‎ (41)
medicine‎ (37)
plays-poetry‎ (33)
physics‎ (32)
theology-mythology‎ (29)
nature‎ (25)
children-fiction‎ (23)

uk-history‎ (22)
world-history‎ (21)
asian-history‎ (18)
horror‎ (16)
epidemiology‎ (15)
middle-eastern-history‎ (15)
mathematics‎ (14)
japanese-literature‎ (13)
russian-history‎ (12)
artificial-intelligence‎ (11)
french-history‎ (10)
essays‎ (9)

history-of-science‎ (9)
african-history‎ (8)
ancient-history‎ (8)
booker-prize‎ (5)
fantasy‎ (5)
gender-feminism‎ (5)
latin-american-history‎ (5)
oceania-history‎ (5)
sociology‎ (5)
irish-history‎ (4)
pultizer-prize‎ (4)
french-literature‎ (2)

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William’s Quotes

“I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

tags: death, die, fountainhead, life, live, mortality

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“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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“People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

tags: animals, cruelty, mankind

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“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: art, chaos

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