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“There’s nothing more personal than a book, especially one that’s become an important part of someone’s life.”
― The Echo of Old Books
― The Echo of Old Books
“Where is human nature so weak as in a bookstore?”
― The Echo of Old Books
― The Echo of Old Books
“Books were safe. They had plots that followed predictable patterns, beginnings, middles, and endings. Usually happy, though not always. But if something tragic happened in a book, you could just close it and choose a new one, unlike real life, where events often played out without the protagonist’s consent.”
― The Echo of Old Books
― The Echo of Old Books
“shruti texts do not have a human agent as a composer. Examples of shruti texts are Vedas, Brahmanas, Aranyakas and Upanishads.”
― The Bhagavad Gita For Millennials
― The Bhagavad Gita For Millennials
“Seated in my library at night, and looking on the silent faces of my books, I am occasionally visited by a strange sense of the supernatural. —Alexander Smith”
― The Echo of Old Books
― The Echo of Old Books
Karthik’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Karthik’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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