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always subconsciously rejected or ignored the proper knowledge; it cut too close to the psychic bone, and I shoved it aside as an unwelcome addition to my store of information.
“It has never occurred to you,” he said, “that you might have as much right to be here as anyone.”
― Educated
― Educated
“Choices, numberless as grains of sand, had layered and compressed, coalescing into sediment, then into rock, until all was set in stone.”
― Educated
― Educated
“An education is not so much about making a living as making a person.”
― Educated
― Educated
“There’s a sense of sovereignty that comes from life on a mountain, a perception of privacy and isolation, even of dominion. In that vast space you can sail unaccompanied for hours, afloat on pine and brush and rock. It’s a tranquillity born of sheer immensity; it calms with its very magnitude, which renders the merely human of no consequence. Gene was formed by this alpine hypnosis, this hushing of human drama.”
― Educated
― Educated
“He said positive liberty is self-mastery—the rule of the self, by the self. To have positive liberty, he explained, is to take control of one’s own mind; to be liberated from irrational fears and beliefs, from addictions, superstitions and all other forms of self-coercion.”
― Educated
― Educated
Gabrielle’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Gabrielle’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
356 books
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28 friends
792 books
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20 friends
1,363 books
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22 friends
55 books
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43 friends
457 books
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77 friends
219 books
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19 friends
1,338 books
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10 friends
1,016 books
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5,001 friends
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