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“You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.”
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“I am constantly amazed by man's inhumanity to man.”
― If This Is a Man • The Truce
― If This Is a Man • The Truce
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
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“Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history.”
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“Hark ye yet again,--the little lower layer. All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event--in the living act, the undoubted deed—there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask. If man will strike, strike through the mask! How can the prisoner reach outside except by thrusting through the wall? To me, the white whale is that wall, shoved near to me. Sometimes I think there’s naught beyond. But ‘tis enough.”
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Eric’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Eric’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
773 books
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12 friends
52 books
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5 friends
370 books
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34 friends
30 books
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2 friends
43 books
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9 friends
0 books
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6 friends
32 books
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5 friends
1 book
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11 friends
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