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Surabhi Borgikar

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Surabhi’s Notes & Highlights

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

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Now naturally, like many of us, I have a reluctance to change too much of the old ways. But there is no virtue at all in clinging as some do to tradition merely for its own sake.

Pachinko

by Min Jin Lee

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The Snowman

by Jo Nesbø

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“Human thinking depends on metaphor. We understand new or complex things in relation to things we already know.”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis: Putting Ancient Wisdom to the Test of Modern Science

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“We do not know why, when we think of them, we feel all of a sudden that the earth is good and that it is not a burden to live.”
― Ayn Rand, Anthem

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“We have followed you," they said, "and we shall follow you wherever you go. If danger threatens you, we shall face it also. If it be death, we shall die with you. You are damned, and we wish to share your damnation.”
― Ayn Rand, Anthem

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“What is my joy if all hands, even the unclean, can reach into it? What is my wisdom, if even the fools can dictate to me? What is my freedom, if all creatures, even the botched and the impotent, are my masters? What is my life, if I am but to bow, to agree and to obey?”
― Ayn Rand, Anthem

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“Good and evil do not exist outside of our beliefs about them.”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis: Putting Ancient Wisdom to the Test of Modern Science

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