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“The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned. I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.”
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“You can’t ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. ”
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“The reason we feel alienated is because the society is infantile, trivial, and stupid. So the cost of sanity in this society is a certain level of alienation. I grapple with this because I’m a parent. And I think anybody who has children, you come to this realization, you know—what’ll it be? Alienated, cynical intellectual? Or slack-jawed, half-wit consumer of the horseshit being handed down from on high? There is not much choice in there, you see. And we all want our children to be well adjusted; unfortunately, there’s nothing to be well adjusted to!”
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Emmanuel’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Emmanuel’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
19,414 books
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2,852 friends
1,945 books
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439 friends
208 books
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18 friends
45 books
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10 friends
254 books
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19 friends
608 books
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1,947 friends
331 books
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72 friends
217 books
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45 friends
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