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The Repeat Room

by Jesse Ball (Goodreads Author)

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An Ermine in Czernopol (New York Review Books Classics)

by Gregor von Rezzori

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Anne’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for A Land With a People: Palestinians and Jews Confront Zionism

A Land With a People: Palestinians and Jews Confront Zionism by Esther Farmer

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for no reason besides the sheer fortune of cisgender assignment, I was responsible for social reproduction—all the things that maintain domestic order, like cleaning and cooking

The Book of Disquiet

by Fernando Pessoa

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Biography of X

by Catherine Lacey

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“Her romances often seemed like dalliances; she enjoyed male company and blossomed in its presence, but she did not appear to care deeply about any of the men [Steiner]”
― Elizabeth Winder, Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953

tags: attention, lack-of-love, lacking-depth

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“Any of us who have raised children know, as John F. Kennedy once said, that “to have children is to give hostages to fate.”
― Ann Rule, The Stranger Beside Me

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“Myth, the smoke of history, is seen to signal new and more relevant meanings when espied from the distance of later millennia.”
― John Keay, India: A History

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“Growth requires the acceptance of the most uncomfortable truth.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability

tags: be-the-change, bitter-truth, brainy-quotes, curiosity, growth, growth-mindset, learning, personal-development, pursuit-of-truth, social-development

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“The bogus religiosity which now surrounds original works of art, and which is ultimately dependent upon their market value, has become the substitute for what paintings lost when the camera made them reproducible.”
― John Berger, Ways of Seeing

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