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“I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use -- silence, exile, and cunning.”
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
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“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”
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“For I have known them all already, known them all—
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.”
― T. S. Eliot Reading: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Others
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.”
― T. S. Eliot Reading: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Others
“The thirst for something other than what we have…to bring something new, even if it is worse, some emotion, some sorrow; when our sensibility, which happiness has silenced like an idle harp, wants to resonate under some hand, even a rough one, and even if it might be broken by it.”
― Swann’s Way
― Swann’s Way
Jay’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jay’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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175 friends
501 books
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143 friends
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