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Gurj is Currently Reading

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House of Odysseus (The Songs of Penelope, #2)

by Claire North

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Royals and Rebels: The Rise and Fall of the Sikh Empire

by Priya Atwal

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Gurj’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for In Other Words: A Memoir (Italian Edition)

In Other Words: A Memoir (Italian Edition) by Jhumpa Lahiri

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you live in a country where your own language is considered foreign, you can feel a continuous sense of estrangement.

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Gurj’s Quotes

“The heads of strong old age are beautiful / Beyond all grace of youth”
― Robinson Jeffers

tags: age, beauty, youth

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“Only years of practice will teach you the mysteries and bold certainty of a real gardener, who treads at random, yet tramples on nothing.”
― Karel Čapek

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“Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.”
― Clement Clarke Moore, Twas the Night Before Christmas

tags: christmas-quotes

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“Shades of a new morning standing still are worse than the shades of night. At least a person can understand the dark of night. It’s not fickle like the day.”
― Sarah E. Wright, This Child's Gonna Live

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“When the police kill unarmed black suspects, those deaths are associated with a significant dip in the mental health of blacks across the entire state where those killings occurred.”
― Jennifer L. Eberhardt, Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do

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