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It is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry's contemplation of my travels, in which my often rumination wraps me in a most humorous sadness.
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QOTD It is only a novel, some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language Jane Austen

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers 20/20

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers 19/20

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QOTD Evil that arises out of ordinary thinking and is committed by ordinary people is the norm, not the exception. ― Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers 17/20

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QOTD One of the moral diseases we communicate to one another in society comes from huddling together in the pale light of an insufficient answer to a question we are afraid to ask. Thomas Merton, prologue to No Man Is an Island.

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers 16/20

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QOTD A neurosis-driven person can indeed rise up to the top of a political system, even a well-defined and heavily bureaucratized system. People with some afflictions even seem to thrive there. Raymond Birt, Personality and Foreign Policy: The Case of Stalin

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QOTD Perhaps the whole root of our trouble . . . is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, the only fact we have. - James Baldwin

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers 16/20

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers 15/20

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QOTD When someone works for less pay than she can live on — when, for example, she goes hungry so that you can eat more cheaply and conveniently — then she has made a great sacrifice for you, she has made you a gift of some part of her abilities, her health, and her life. - Barbara Ehrenreich

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