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“You look like death eating a soda cracker.”
― Dutchman & The Slave: Two Plays by LeRoi Jones
― Dutchman & The Slave: Two Plays by LeRoi Jones
“When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that last blow that did it—but all that had gone before.”
― Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
― Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
“In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“Perhaps the greatest contradiction in our lives, the hardest to handle, is the knowledge 'There was a time when I was not alive, and there will come a time when I am not alive.' On one level, when you 'step out of yourself' and see yourself as 'just another human being', it makes complete sense. But on another level, perhaps a deeper level, personal nonexistence makes no sense at all. All that we know is embedded inside our minds, and for all that to be absent from the universe is not comprehensible. This is a basic undeniable problem of life...”
― Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
― Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Samuel’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Samuel’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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460 books
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1,481 books
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15 friends
61 books
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1,694 books
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406 books
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510 books
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22 friends
70 books
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6 friends
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