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He was a man who would never ask for sympathy. He was a man who sought only to do what was right. Such people appear in the world, every world, now and then, like a single refrain of some blessed song, a fragment caught on the spur of an
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“Things should make sense. From one end to the other, no matter from which direction one elected to begin the journey, everything should fit. Fitting neatly was the gift of order, proof of control, and from control, mastery. He would not accept an unknowable world. Mysteries needed hunting down. Like”
― Forge of Darkness
― Forge of Darkness
“But sometimes it seems to me that people just like to hold on to their grievances. Righteous indignation is like some kind of drug or religious mania, addictive and stupidifying.”
― Aurora
― Aurora
“Decent folk had to let indecent folk do their thing; that was the paradox of decency.”
― On a Pale Horse
― On a Pale Horse
“He was less and less sure with every day that being a better man was worth all the effort.”
― Best Served Cold
― Best Served Cold
“The servile will is always locked in a double bind: to have a will means the agent will indeed will various actions, following autonomous decisions made by a conscious mind; and yet at the same time this will is specified to be servile, and at the command of some other will that commands it. To attempt to obey both sources of willfulness is the double bind. All double binds lead to frustration, resentment, anger, rage, bad faith, bad fate.”
― Aurora
― Aurora
Kiril’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Kiril’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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308 books
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48 books
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90 books
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43 books
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238 books
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