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“when expressing their opinions, the political parties prefer not to take too many risks, in the spirit of trying to please everyone all the time, they say yes, but then again no.”
― Seeing
― Seeing
“What stands in your way is that you have a much too willful will. You think that what you do not do yourself does not happen.”
― Zen in the Art of Archery
― Zen in the Art of Archery
“None of us may want to claim to live life in two parallel lanes but all have many lives, one tucked beneath or right alongside the other. Some lives wait their turn because they haven't been lived at all, while others die before they've lived out their time, and some are waiting to be relived because they haven't been lived enough.”
― Find Me
― Find Me
“Some novels even overdramatize events, which, in real life, happen in a far more unassuming and inconsequential way; they happen, then they're over, they run into one another, floating like clouds scattered by the wind between the odd deceptive pause that turns out to be impossible, because time—which no one understands—stops for nothing.”
― Mac y su contratiempo
― Mac y su contratiempo
“Happiness was never important. The problem is that we don't know what we really want. What makes us happy is not to get what we want. But to dream about it. Happiness is for opportunists. So I think that the only life of deep satisfaction is a life of eternal struggle, especially struggle with oneself. If you want to remain happy, just remain stupid. Authentic masters are never happy; happiness is a category of slaves.”
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Willem’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Willem’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
394 books
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185 friends
373 books
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70 friends
1,015 books
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149 friends
269 books
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42 friends
306 books
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Favorite Genres
Fiction, History, Memoir, Non-fiction, Poetry, Politics, Psychology, Self help, social-justice, and economics
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