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“A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth—that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love. I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“I think it was Lessing who once said, “There are things which must cause you to lose your reason or you have none to lose.” An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
Shanna Laughlin’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Shanna Laughlin’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,033 books
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78 friends
333 books
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47 friends
61 books
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5 friends
385 books
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62 friends
355 books
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81 friends
56 books
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27 friends
170 books
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65 friends
284 books
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74 friends
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