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“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
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“He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.”
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“When things go wrong, you’ll find they usually go in getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.”
― The Magician's Nephew
― The Magician's Nephew
“The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.”
― Provocations: Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard
― Provocations: Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard
“The man who is contented to be only himself, and therefore less a self, is in prison. My own eyes are not enough for me, I will see through those of others. Reality, even seen through the eyes of many, is not enough. I will see what others have invented. Even the eyes of all humanity are not enough. I regret that the brutes connot write books. Very gladly would I learn what face things present to a mouse or a bee; more gladly still would I perceive the olfactory world charged with all the information and emotion it carries for a dog. Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality... in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad of eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.”
― An Experiment in Criticism
― An Experiment in Criticism
guel’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at guel’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Christian, Classics, Fantasy, Fiction, Memoir, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Psychology, Religion, and Self help
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