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Roy Van Eijk
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“It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.”
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“The choice, as he saw it, was this: You give up or you work for change. “What’s better for us?” Barack called to the people gathered in the room. “Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?”
― Becoming
― Becoming
“...convention [is] the most subtle but oppressive dictator.
[Edith 'Ditte' Thompson]”
― The Dictionary of Lost Words
[Edith 'Ditte' Thompson]”
― The Dictionary of Lost Words
“Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?”
― A Clockwork Orange
― A Clockwork Orange
“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
Roy’s 2025 Year in Books
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878 books
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8 friends
272 books
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582 books
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568 books
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278 books
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667 books
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107 books
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333 books
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67 friends
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