The best part of reading is the line you want to show someone. Save the passage, get a card worth sharing, and a library takes shape while you do it.
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Freedom is doing something for yourself, knowing yourself, and treating yourself well.
"It was out of this pathos of distance that they first arrogated the right to create values for their own profit, and to coin the names of such values: what had they to do with utility?"
Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
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Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
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Reading and keeping what you read should be one motion. You read the book, mark the passage, and the exact words are saved, not a vague memory of them.
"What is, is, what is not, is not. The Tao is made because we walk it, things become what they are called."
Chuang Tzu, The Book of Chuang Tzu
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Chuang Tzu, The Book of Chuang Tzu
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What part of your own nature have you stopped fighting?
Fighting against your own nature only benefits you if your nature is blocking the path.
Some books you finish. Some you keep arguing with for years. A commonplace book is where the lines you return to actually live.
"Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement. The same way that money multiplies through compound interest, the effects of your habits multiply as you repeat them."
James Clear, Atomic Habits
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James Clear, Atomic Habits
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