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“The word I was typing was always in the past while the word I was thinking of was always in the future, which left the present oddly uninhabited”
― Trust
― Trust
“God is the most uninteresting answer to the most interesting questions.”
― Trust
― Trust
“The terrifying freedom of knowing that nothing, from now on, will become a memory”
― Trust
― Trust
“While grateful for it, he was suspicious of the American notion of freedom, which he viewed as a strict synonym of conformism, or, even worse, the mere possibility of choosing between different versions of the same product.”
― Trust
― Trust
“Because money is all things (or can be all things), something strange happens to the person who has it. As Marx says, it's like someone finding, by pure chance, the philosopher's stone. You know the philosopher's stone?"
"Yes, I know what the philosopher's stone is."
"The philosopher's stone gives you all the knowledge. All of it. All the knowledge of all the sciences. Imagine that someone just finds this stone. By luck. Suddenly he would have all this knowledge, regardless of his individuality. Even if he's a perfect idiot. All of it. All the knowledge.”
― Trust
"Yes, I know what the philosopher's stone is."
"The philosopher's stone gives you all the knowledge. All of it. All the knowledge of all the sciences. Imagine that someone just finds this stone. By luck. Suddenly he would have all this knowledge, regardless of his individuality. Even if he's a perfect idiot. All of it. All the knowledge.”
― Trust
Linda’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Linda’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,048 books
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328 friends
367 books
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92 friends
977 books
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176 friends
145 books
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24 friends
1 book
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16 friends
0 books
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27 friends
106 books
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7 friends
0 books
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6 friends
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