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The Golden Fool (Tawny Man, #2)

by Robin Hobb (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: fantasy, adventure, currently-reading

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Cut to the Quick (Julian Kestrel Mysteries, #1)

by Kate Ross

bookshelves: mystery, history, 2025-tbr, currently-reading

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Ballad of Sword and Wine: Qiang Jin Jiu (Novel) Vol. 1

by Tang Jiu Qing

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“Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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“But I had not known that I was strong enough to do any of those things until they were over and I had done them. I had to do the work first, not knowing.”
― Naomi Novik, Spinning Silver

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“Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

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“He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.”
― Thomas Mann

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“For we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead kings, and we each of us deserve nothing, not a mouthful of bread in hunger. Have we not eaten while another starved? Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate? No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

tags: ethics, politics

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