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The City Trilogy: Five Jade Disks, Defenders of the Dragon City, Tale of a Feather

by Hsi-kuo Chang

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Your Presence Is a Danger to Your Life: Voices from Gaza

by Samar Yazbek

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Lectures on Literature

by Vladimir Nabokov

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renping’s Quotes

“The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

tags: love, macbeth, play, tragedy, william-shakespeare

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“To be successful you need friends and to be very successful you need enemies.”
― Sidney Sheldon, The Other Side of Midnight

tags: enemies, friends, success

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“A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets.”
― George Orwell, Burmese Days

tags: britain, british-empire, colonialism, imperialism, india, pukka-sahibs, war

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“If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

tags: stress, travel

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“Who can say if the thoughts you have in your mind as you read these words are the same thoughts I had in my mind as I typed them? We are different, you and I, and the qualia of our consciousnesses are as divergent as two stars at the ends of the universe.

And yet, whatever has been lost in translation in the long journey of my thoughts through the maze of civilization to your mind, I think you do understand me, and you think you do understand me. Our minds managed to touch, if but briefly and imperfectly.

Does that thought not make the universe seem just a bit kinder, a bit brighter, a bit warmer and more human?

We live for such miracles.”
― Ken Liu, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

tags: consciousness, mind, miracle, thoughts, translation, universe

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