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“To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.”
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“It is a good lesson - though it may often be a hard one - for a man... to step aside out of the narrow circle in which his claims are recognized, and to find how utterly devoid of significance, beyond that circle, is all that he achieves, and all he aims at.”
― The Scarlet Letter
― The Scarlet Letter
“It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart”
― A Separate Peace
― A Separate Peace
“A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation.”
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“If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence, or at any rate not take it upon himself to impose that burden upon it in cold blood?”
― Studies in Pessimism: The Essays
― Studies in Pessimism: The Essays
Sean’s 2025 Year in Books
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77 friends
921 books
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290 books
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139 books
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119 books
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300 books
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178 books
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134 books
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