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“The meaning of my existence is that life has addressed a question to me. Or, conversely, I myself am a question which is addressed to the world, and I must communicate my answer, for otherwise I am dependent upon the world’s answer.”
― Memories, Dreams, Reflections
― Memories, Dreams, Reflections
“Even a single taboo can have an all-round crippling effect upon the mind, because there is always the danger that any thought which is freely followed up may lead to the forbidden thought.”
― The Prevention of Literature
― The Prevention of Literature
“Then it was June and I started to feel like a new woman---not in a new-lease-on-life kind of way, more like a refinanced mortgage.”
― Certain American States: Stories
― Certain American States: Stories
“(...) lost in the idea of a disembodied world, one where ideas could hold other ideas, where thoughts could see other thoughts and death couldn’t end thoughts, where one remained alive by thinking, and was not alive if not thinking. Somehow our bodies wouldn’t hold us back the way they do here. Somehow our bodies wouldn’t determine our lives, the lives of others, the ways in which one life could or could not meet the life of another. We would not have to sleep or slam doors or exist in these cells that eat other cells and die anyway, these cells we live in.”
― Pew
― Pew
“A modern soldier returning from combat---or a survivor of Sarajevo---goes from the kind of close-knit group that humans evolved for, back into a society where most people work outside the home, children are educated by strangers, families ae isolated from wider communities, and personal gain almost completely eclipses collective good. Even if he or she is part of a family, that is not the same as belonging to a group that shares resources and experiences almost everything collectively. Whatever the technological advances of modern society---and they're nearly miraculous---the individualized lifestyles that those technologies spawn seem to be deeply brutalizing to the human spirit.”
― Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
― Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
Stacy’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Stacy’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
116 books
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21 friends
794 books
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298 books
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108 friends
104 books
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317 books
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139 friends
174 books
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31 books
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112 friends
49 books
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46 friends
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