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My Husband

by Maud Ventura

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gabrielle said: " Honestly i'm not enjoying this that much. A lot of people are calling this an unhinged woman story etc. etc. but I think it's lacking personality in the same way the narrator does. The beauty of a lot of other unhinged women's stories i have read - y ...more "

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The Covenant of Water

by Abraham Verghese (Goodreads Author)

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"“Success is not money! Success is you fully loving what you are doing. That only is success.” Okay, Abraham. Bars." — Jun 02, 2024 07:21PM

Jun 02, 2024 07:17PM

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The Overstory

by Richard Powers

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"Soooo cool" — Apr 28, 2024 08:20AM

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“And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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“There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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“I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too—in a net of good and evil. . . . There is no other story. A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well—or ill?”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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“But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

tags: choice, freedom, freedom-of-choice, hebrew, language, timshel

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