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“If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.”
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“We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.”
― The Power of Myth
― The Power of Myth
“Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot afford, we grow poorer, whatever our resources. And every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.”
― Status Anxiety
― Status Anxiety
“Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition.”
― Status Anxiety
― Status Anxiety
“If cynicism and love lie at opposite ends of a spectrum, do we not sometimes fall in love in order to escape the debilitating cynicism to which we are prone? Is there not in every coup de foudre a certain willful exaggeration of the qualities of the beloved, an exaggeration which distracts us from our habitual pessimism and focuses our energies on someone in whom we can believe in a way we have never believed in ourselves?”
― On Love
― On Love
Boston’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Boston’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
774 books
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51 friends
8 books
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3 friends
54 books
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7 friends
571 books
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229 friends
422 books
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10 friends
1,053 books
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46 friends
0 books
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1 friend
112 books
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20 friends
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