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"the exploration of pride was interesting, but the story has otherwise failed to grip me so far. might dnf" — Dec 21, 2025 08:48AM
"the exploration of pride was interesting, but the story has otherwise failed to grip me so far. might dnf" — Dec 21, 2025 08:48AM
“History is something that very few people have been doing while everyone else was ploughing fields and carrying water buckets.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“The world can’t hurt you if you just ignore everything that’s wrong with it; well, not until it kills you anyway.”
― The City Born Great
― The City Born Great
“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.”
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“There was a date beneath the image: 1955. I realized that Mother had been four years old in 1955, and with that realization, the distance between me and Emmett Till collapsed. My proximity to this murdered boy could be measured in the lives of people I knew. The calculation was not made with reference to vast historical or geological shifts—the fall of civilizations, the erosion of mountains. It was measured in the wrinkling of human flesh. In the lines on my mother's face.”
― Educated
― Educated
“I realised that the search for the Knowledge has encouraged us to think of the House as if it were a sort of riddle to be unravelled, a text to be interpreted, and that if ever we discover the Knowledge, then it will be as if the Value has been wrested from the House and all that remains will be mere scenery.”
― Piranesi
― Piranesi
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