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“I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?”
― Candide, or, Optimism
― Candide, or, Optimism
“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
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“Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies."
(Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)”
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(Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)”
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“Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.”
― Cat’s Cradle
― Cat’s Cradle
“God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.”
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James’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at James’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Favorite Genres
Art, Classics, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Memoir, Music, Mystery, Poetry, Psychology, Romance, Science, Science fiction, Self help, Thriller, Travel, Young-adult, and Nonfiction
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