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“If you want to make breakthroughs to reach the stars, it is best that you board a ship that has already started its journey in that direction.”
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“Most gulls don’t bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight—how to get from shore to food and back again. For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight. More than anything else, Jonathan Livingston Seagull loved to fly. This kind of thinking, he found, is not the way to make one’s self popular with other birds. Even his parents were dismayed as Jonathan spent whole days alone, making hundreds of low-level glides, experimenting. He”
― Jonathan Livingston Seagull
― Jonathan Livingston Seagull
“My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.”
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“To be able to say: I loved this person, we had a hell of a nice time together, it’s over but in a way it will never be over and I do know that I for sure loved this person, to be able to say that and mean it, that’s rare, señor. That’s rare and valuable.”
— Ernest Hemingway, from The Complete Short Stories ”
― The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
— Ernest Hemingway, from The Complete Short Stories ”
― The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
“The Little Boy and the Old Man
Said the little boy, "Sometimes I drop my spoon."
Said the old man, "I do that too."
The little boy whispered, "I wet my pants."
I do that too," laughed the little old man.
Said the little boy, "I often cry."
The old man nodded, "So do I."
But worst of all," said the boy, "it seems
Grown-ups don't pay attention to me."
And he felt the warmth of a wrinkled old hand.
I know what you mean," said the little old man.”
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Said the little boy, "Sometimes I drop my spoon."
Said the old man, "I do that too."
The little boy whispered, "I wet my pants."
I do that too," laughed the little old man.
Said the little boy, "I often cry."
The old man nodded, "So do I."
But worst of all," said the boy, "it seems
Grown-ups don't pay attention to me."
And he felt the warmth of a wrinkled old hand.
I know what you mean," said the little old man.”
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Viraj’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Viraj’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
772 books
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291 friends
25 books
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112 books
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338 friends
39 books
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63 friends
25 books
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4 friends
34 books
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121 friends
74 books
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555 friends
1 book
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48 friends
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