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For eventually, we come to hold our dearest possessions more closely than we hold our friends. We carry them from place to place, often at considerable expense and inconvenience; we dust and polish their surfaces and reprimand children for
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“Our lifestyle is evolutionarily unstable--and is therefore in the process of eliminating itself in the perfectly ordinary way.”
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“Das war ein Vorspiel nur; dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen."
(Almansor)”
― Gesammelte Werke
(Almansor)”
― Gesammelte Werke
“Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.”
― The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
― The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Scratch any fortune and you'll find blood only a generation or two back...child labor in mines or mills...Slavery. Drugs. Stock swindles. Wasting nature with clear-cuts, pollution, harvesting to extinction. Monopolies. Disease. War. Every fortune comes out of something unpleasant.”
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“Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth. We blunder along, shredded by our mistakes, bludgeoned by our faults. Not having a clue where the dark path leads us. But on the whole, we stumble along bravely, don't you think?”
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Courtney’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Courtney’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
2,367 books
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103 friends
209 books
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25 friends
1,990 books
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143 friends
4,740 books
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139 friends
724 books
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73 friends
1,462 books
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38 friends
6,263 books
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42 friends
1,697 books
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122 friends
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