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“No" is a complete sentence.”
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“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
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“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
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“Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”
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“And I felt like my heart had been so thoroughly and irreparably broken that there could be no real joy again, that at best there might eventually be a little contentment. Everyone wanted me to get help and rejoin life, pick up the pieces and move on, and I tried to, I wanted to, but I just had to lie in the mud with my arms wrapped around myself, eyes closed, grieving, until I didn’t have to anymore.”
― Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
― Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
Delhi Book Club
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— last activity Mar 03, 2026 08:21PM
I moved to India a year back and want to meet fellow readers of literature.
Shivani’s 2025 Year in Books
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