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“How agonized we are by how people die. How unconcerned we are by how they live.”
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“If it's a story I'm telling, then I have control over the ending...
But if it's a story, even in my head, I must be telling it to someone.
You don't tell a story only to yourself. There's always someone else. Even when there is no one.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
But if it's a story, even in my head, I must be telling it to someone.
You don't tell a story only to yourself. There's always someone else. Even when there is no one.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”
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“What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint.”
― The Remains of the Day
― The Remains of the Day
“The roar of the traffic, the passage of undifferentiated
faces, this way and that way, drugs me into dreams; rubs the
features from faces. People might walk through me. And what is
this moment of time, this particular day in which I have found
myself caught? The growl of traffic might be any uproar - forest trees or
the roar of wild beasts. Time has whizzed back an inch or two on its reel;
our short progress has been cancelled. I think also that our bodies are in truth
naked. We are only lightly covered with buttoned cloth; and beneath these
pavements are shells, bones and silence.”
― The Waves
faces, this way and that way, drugs me into dreams; rubs the
features from faces. People might walk through me. And what is
this moment of time, this particular day in which I have found
myself caught? The growl of traffic might be any uproar - forest trees or
the roar of wild beasts. Time has whizzed back an inch or two on its reel;
our short progress has been cancelled. I think also that our bodies are in truth
naked. We are only lightly covered with buttoned cloth; and beneath these
pavements are shells, bones and silence.”
― The Waves
2026 Big Book Challenge
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— last activity May 12, 2026 02:31PM
Have some larger books to read this year? This is the place to share those. You set your own goal as to the number of books to read, or just keep trac ...more
Kolkata Book Fair
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— last activity Mar 23, 2026 02:53AM
A community to share the nostalgia and fragrance of the evergreen 'Kolkata Book Fair' The Kolkata Book Fair (Old name: Calcutta Book Fair in English, ...more
Aritry’s 2025 Year in Books
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