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Vishakha

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Bird by Bird

by Anne Lamott (Goodreads Author)

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"My gratitude for good writing is unbounded; I’m grateful for it the way I’m grateful for the ocean. Aren't you?" — Mar 19, 2026 10:52PM

Mar 18, 2026 07:23AM

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A Velocity of Being: Letters to a Young Reader

by Maria Popova (Goodreads Author)

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Dec 08, 2024 09:10PM

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Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Oct 07, 2021 03:37AM

“All of us who are living are dying. The only ones not dying are the dead.,,To live was to be haunted by the inevitability of one's own decay, and to be dead was to be haunted by the memory of living.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

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“Perhaps it is true that for all the evidence of the mirror, one pictures oneself in some deep niche of the mind as forever 18.”
― Vikram Seth

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“I predict that there will be many more like him in the future,” she sighed. “People of privilege speaking heroically on behalf of those with whom they have no intention of mixing.”
― Kevin Ansbro, In the Shadow of Time

tags: disingenuous, do-gooders, fake-people, grandstanding, hypocrisy, hypocrites, poseurs, posturing, virtue-signaling, virtue-signalling

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“May we not be as foolish as we are almost bound to be. If we cannot eschew hatred, at least let us eschew group hatred. May we see that we could have been born as each other. May we, in short, believe in humane logic and perhaps, in due course, love.”
― Vikram Seth, Two Lives

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“Remember that the best medical treatment is a sense of relativism. No matter how badly you might feel, take comfort in knowing there's someone who feels much worse.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

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