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“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
“It may be true that the law cannot change the heart, but it can restrain the heartless.”
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“The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. ”
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“The chaplain had mastered, in a moment of divine intuition, the handy technique of protective rationalization, and he was exhilarated by his discovery. It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.”
― Catch-22
― Catch-22
Alice’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Alice’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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192 friends
2,017 books
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113 friends
212 books
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57 friends
1,809 books
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88 friends
587 books
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103 friends
159 books
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43 friends
284 books
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27 friends
159 books
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81 friends
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