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Conor is Currently Reading

Conor Doran is currently reading

The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources

by Javier Blas

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From Third World to First: A Statesman’s Powerful Story of Transformation from Poverty to National Leadership

by Lee Kuan Yew

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Apr 05, 2026 08:34AM

Conor’s Quotes

“What might have been is an abstraction
Remaining a perpetual possibility
Only in a world of speculation.”
― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

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“It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

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“Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

tags: self-realization

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“I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.”
― Ovid, Metamorphoses

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“Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

tags: gabriel, garcía, hundred, márquez, of, one, solitude, years

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