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There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

by Hanif Abdurraqib

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The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

by Jonathan Haidt

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The Idiot

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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"2.9: Theyre all just hanging out at a veranda, 11PM, during what was supposed to be a getaway…Didnt have sht to do in fuedal Russia I guess

I dont understand the prince at all, I dont think its “goodness” that makes him keep entertaining awful people. You can only let in so many people until you become a doormat" — Dec 23, 2025 06:17PM

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Pia’s Quotes

“I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am, also, much more than that. So are we all.”
― James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son

tags: circumstances, history, humans, life, personality, soul, time

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“When white readers claim to be made uncomfortable—as many I heard from claimed—by the presence of something like untranslated words in fiction, what they’re really saying is: I have always been the expected reader. A reader like this is used to the practice of reading being one that may performatively challenge them, much the way a safari guides a tourist through the “wilderness”—but ultimately always prioritizes their comfort and understanding.”
― Elaine Castillo, How to Read Now

tags: diversity, reading

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“Park reminds us that justice and violence are temporary friends, and that what actually makes justice meaningful are the same things that make life meaningful: love, repair, intimacy, connections, solidarity and the promise of the daily.”
― Elaine Castillo, How to Read Now

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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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“Loneliness is personal, and it is also political. Loneliness is collective; it is a city. As to how to inhabit it, there are no rules and nor is there any need to feel shame, only to remember that the pursuit of individual happiness does not trump or excuse our obligations to each another. We are in this together, this accumulation of scars, this world of objects, this physical and temporary heaven that so often takes on the countenance of hell. What matters is kindness; what matters is solidarity. What matters is staying alert, staying open, because if we know anything from what has gone before us, it is that the time for feeling will not last.”
― Olivia Laing, The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

tags: loneliness

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