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“And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.”
― 1984
― 1984
“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
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“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.”
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“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
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“omnis mundi creatura / quasi liber et pictura / nobis est in speculum
(all the creatures of the world / as a book and a picture / are to us a mirror)”
― The Name of the Rose
(all the creatures of the world / as a book and a picture / are to us a mirror)”
― The Name of the Rose
Frank’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Frank’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,330 books
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168 friends
718 books
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326 friends
1,164 books
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48 friends
481 books
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27 friends
164 books
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1,392 friends
246 books
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5,275 friends
40 books
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1,349 friends
476 books
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491 friends
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