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“What a feeble thing intelligence is, with its short steps, its waverings, its pacings back and forth, its disastrous retreats! Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances. There are people who say that intelligence must have built the universe - why, intelligence never built a steam-engine! Circumstances built a steam-engine. Intelligence is little more than a short foot-rule by which we measure the infinite achievements of Circumstances.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“I learned a little of beauty-- enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth...”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“THE VOICE: (to BEAUTY) Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“There's only one lesson to be learned form life, anyway," interrupted Gloria, not in contradiction but in a sort of melancholy agreement.
"What's that?" demanded Maury sharply.
"That there's no lesson to be learned from life.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
"What's that?" demanded Maury sharply.
"That there's no lesson to be learned from life.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
Kevin’s 2024 Year in Books
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833 books
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163 books
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77 books
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826 books
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223 books
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142 books
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694 books
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