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Stoner
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This is my second time reading Stoner, and I still absolutely love it. It's hard to pin down exactly why this book moves me. If you read slowly and carefully, you will find gems of wisdom here. William Stoner inspires me to let go of hatred, resentment, ambition and envy. He may seem to some like a pushover or too passive, but in fact, he is full of love for people and life, and even more, he lives in the moment, accepts and adjusts to each new reality in his life without bitterness or cynicism, and makes moral behavior his central objective. This novel is an examination of one man's quiet life. It teaches us how to value the life of each individual, and how to find meaning in the smallest acts of love and sacrifice.
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Quotes Leslie Liked
“In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another.”
― Stoner
― Stoner
“In his extreme youth Stoner had thought of love as an absolute state of being to which, if one were lucky, one might find access; in his maturity he had decided it was the heaven of a false religion, toward which one ought to gaze with an amused disbelief, a gently familiar contempt, and an embarrassed nostalgia. Now in his middle age he began to know that it was neither a state of grace nor an illusion; he saw it as a human act of becoming, a condition that was invented and modified moment by moment and day by day, by the will and the intelligence and the heart.”
― Stoner
― Stoner
Reading Progress
February 14, 2014
– Shelved
January 16, 2017
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Started Reading
January 20, 2017
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Finished Reading
April 14, 2017
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2017
September 13, 2021
– Shelved as:
books-i-own
September 15, 2021
– Shelved as:
all-time-favorites
