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History has shown charm to be the final ambition of the leisure class.
“If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.”
― Nature and Selected Essays
― Nature and Selected Essays
“We all owe death a life.”
― Midnight’s Children
― Midnight’s Children
“The only infallible truth of our lives is that everything we love in life will be taken from us.”
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“Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand who saith, 'A whole I planned, youth shows but half; Trust God: See all, nor be afraid!”
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“Who what am I? My answer: I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I’ve gone which would not have happened if I had not come. Nor am I particularly exceptional in this matter; each ‘I’, every one of the now-six-hundred-million-plus of us, contains a similar multitude. I repeat for the last time: to understand me, you’ll have to swallow the world.”
― Midnight’s Children
― Midnight’s Children
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Kevin’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Kevin’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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284 books
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438 books
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334 books
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276 books
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