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“There's no meanness too spiteful or too cruel, Didier once said to me, when we hate someone for all the wrong reasons.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram
“I think that it is a part of growing up, learning to control our suffering. I think that when we grow up, and learn that happiness is rare, and passes quickly, we become disillusioned and hurt. And how much we suffer is a mark of how much we have been hurt by this realisation. Suffering, you see, is a kind of anger. We rage against the unfairness, the injustice of our sad and sorry lot.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram
“A lot of bad stuff in the world wasn’t really that bad until someone tried to change it.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram
“Fear dries a man’s mouth, and hate strangles him. That’s why hate has no great literature: real fear and real hate have no words.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram
“Slowly, desolately, the fist of what we'd done unclenched the clawed palm of what we'd become.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram
Nathalie’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Nathalie’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
790 books
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67 friends
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472 books
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590 books
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215 friends
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Favorite Genres
Book Club, Contemporary, Cooking, Crime, Fiction, Food, Memoir, Paranormal, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, Suspense, Travel, and Women's Fiction
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