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“We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don't have books, don't fuck them.”
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“People want nothing but mirrors around them. To reflect them while they’re reflecting too ... Reflections of reflections and echoes of echoes. No beginning and no end. No center and no purpose.”
― The Fountainhead
― The Fountainhead
“A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack”
― The Fountainhead
― The Fountainhead
“Emigration tears people apart. They learn about high points and personal disasters in letters and phone calls. Closer contact is impossible. As if they have landed on another planet, breathing is difficult in the spacesuits they don’t dare to take off for fear there won’t be enough air in the new atmosphere. Their chests rise and fall with difficulty. Their lungs hurt. The voices of the other settlers croak through the microphones in their helmets.”
― Splithead
― Splithead
“It's easy to run to others. It's so hard to stand on one's own record. You can fake virtue for an audience. You can't fake it in your own eyes. Your ego is your strictest judge. They run from it. They spend their lives running. It's easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement. It's simple to seek substitutes for competence--such easy substitutes: love, charm, kindness, charity. But there is no substitute for competence.”
― The Fountainhead
― The Fountainhead
Tiina’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Tiina’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,530 books
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730 friends
1,326 books
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97 friends
910 books
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118 friends
578 books
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172 friends
270 books
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51 friends
643 books
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160 friends
176 books
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316 friends
382 books
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80 friends
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