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“Classification is a condition of knowledge, not knowledge itself, and knowledge in turn dissolves classification.”
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“You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given to know that we must die. And that is a great gift: the gift of selfhood. For we have only what we know we must lose, what we are willing to lose... That selfhood which is our torment, and our treasure, and our humanity, does not endure. It changes; it is gone, a wave on the sea. Would you have the sea grow still and the tides cease, to save one wave, to save yourself?”
― The Farthest Shore
― The Farthest Shore
“The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.”
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“Is this the door to the house, or are the shadow and I a door to the fantasy house?”
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“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
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Dan’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Dan’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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156 friends
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774 books
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643 books
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680 books
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611 books
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5 books
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356 friends
3,716 books
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