“People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.”
― The Power of Myth
― The Power of Myth
“To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.”
― Foundation
― Foundation
“Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.”
― Foundation
― Foundation
“If you're born in a cubicle and grow up in a corridor, and work in a cell, and vacation in a crowded sun-room, then coming up into the open with nothing but sky over you might just give you a nervous breakdown.”
― Foundation
― Foundation
Noor’s 2025 Year in Books
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Art, Biography, Business, Children's, Classics, Comics, Contemporary, Cookbooks, Crime, Ebooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic novels, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Humor and Comedy, Memoir, Music, Mystery, Non-fiction, Paranormal, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Religion, Romance, Science, Science fiction, Suspense, Spirituality, Thriller, Travel, Young-adult, adventure, magic, dystopia, time-travel, apocalyptic, aliens, robots, and alternate-universe
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