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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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“Classification is a condition of knowledge, not knowledge itself, and knowledge in turn dissolves classification.”
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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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“The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.”
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“The so-called consumer society and the politics of corporate capitalism have created a second nature of man which ties him libidinally and aggressively to the commodity form. The need for possessing, consuming, handling and constantly renewing the gadgets, devices, instruments, engines, offered to and imposed upon the people, for using these wares even at the danger of one’s own destruction, has become a “biological” need.”
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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.
894 books
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119 friends
669 books
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13 friends
706 books
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65 friends
285 books
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31 friends
306 books
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83 friends
781 books
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1,483 friends
19,767 books
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155 friends
3,400 books
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4,989 friends
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