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“Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity.”
― Under the Glacier
― Under the Glacier
“Sometimes a journey arises out of hope and instinct, the heady conviction, as your finger travels along the map: Yes, here and here ... and here. These are the nerve-ends of the world ...”
― Shadow of the Silk Road
― Shadow of the Silk Road
“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”
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“Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. ”
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“But he could not help it. No one can help it. One is a realist. One has put up with it all ever since childhood; one has had the courage to look it full in the eye, possibly courage enough to look it in the eye all one's life long. Then one day the distances beckon with their floating possibilities, and in one's hands are the admission tickets, two slips of blue paper. One is a realist no longer. One has finished putting up with it all, one no longer has the courage to look it in the eye, one is in the power of beckoning hospitable distances, floating possibilities, perhaps forever afterwards. Perhaps one's life is over.”
― Independent People
― Independent People
Dora’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Dora’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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150 friends
350 books
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221 books
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207 books
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100 books
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194 books
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3 books
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193 friends
59 books
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