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Shantaram

by Gregory David Roberts (Goodreads Author)

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"Kindness. Resilience. Human spirit. Joy. Poverty.
Second chances. Gratitude.

This book hits you, hard. Take it from someone who isnt easily moved.

PS. the experience of the protagonist would be very different if he was black instead of white in India" — 17 hours, 45 min ago

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Kosha’s Notes & Highlights

Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami

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“I think Kitaru is honestly seeking something,” I went on. “In his own way, at his own pace, very genuinely and directly. It’s just that I don’t think he’s grasped yet what it is. That’s why he can’t make any progress, and that applies to ...more

The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Kosha’s Quotes

“Frodo: I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.
Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

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“Before him he saw two roads, both equally straight; but he did see two; and that terrified him--he who had never in his life known anything but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

tags: les-miserables

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“What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul”
― Victor Hugo , Les Misérables

tags: love, soul, stars

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“Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

tags: light, moon, sense-of-wonder, stars

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“I love this world because it is imperfect. It is imperfect, and that's why it is growing; if it was perfect it would have been dead. Growth is possible only if there is imperfection. I would like you to remember again and again, I am imperfect, the whole universe is imperfect, and to love this imperfection, to rejoice in this imperfection is my whole message.”
― Osho

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