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“If the ego were to disappear, or rather, to be seen as a useful fiction, there would no longer be the duality of subject and object, experiencer and experience. There would simply be a continuous, self-moving stream of experiencing, without the sense either of an active subject who controls it or of a passive subject who suffers it. The thinker would be no more than the series of thoughts, and the feeler no more than the feelings.”
― Nature, Man and Woman
― Nature, Man and Woman
“Never compromise yourself. You are all you've got.”
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“You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.”
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“Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.”
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“He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only dreamed of places now and the lions on the beach. They played like young cats in the dusk and he loved them as he loved the boy. He never dreamed about the boy. He simply woke, looked out the open door at the moon and unrolled his trousers and put them on.”
― The Old Man and the Sea
― The Old Man and the Sea
Daniele’s 2025 Year in Books
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27 books
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59 books
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188 books
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204 books
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