Justin Kern

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Justin Kern

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Justin’s favorite books

Stand Still Like the Hummingbird by Henry Miller

The Complete Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein

Proust by Samuel Beckett

The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante

Molloy / Malone Dies / The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett

Gathering Evidence / My Prizes by Thomas Bernhard

Old Masters by Thomas Bernhard

Satantango by László Krasznahorkai

A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein

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Justin’s Bookshelves

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Justin is Currently Reading

Gin Tama, Vol. 1

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Gin Tama, Vol. 1 (Gin Tama, #1)

by Hideaki Sorachi

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Aug 30, 2025 08:10AM

Yotsuba&!, Vol. 2

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Yotsuba&!, Vol. 2 (Yotsuba&! #2)

by Kiyohiko Azuma

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Shirokuma Cafe bis Manga Vol 1 - 3 Collection ( Japanese Edition ) with Hiragana Chart

by Aroha Higa

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Justin’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Gargoyles

Gargoyles by Thomas Bernhard

The essential elements of a person, my father said, come to light only when we must regard him as lost to us, when everything he has done seems to have been a taking leave of us. Suddenly the true nature of everything about him that was ...more

Extinction

by Thomas Bernhard

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Justin’s Quotes

Fyodor Dostoevsky

“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: hell, love, suffering

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

tags: humanity

1210 likes

Mahatma Gandhi

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: attributed-no-source, discovery, identity, self-discovery, service

2932 likes

Henry Miller

“I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.”
― Henry Miller

496 likes

Leo Tolstoy

“To get rid of an enemy one must love him. ”
― Leo Tolstoy

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Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, Humor and Comedy, Non-fiction, Poetry, and Science fiction

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