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The Namesake

by Jhumpa Lahiri

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Maajed said: " Despite its deceptively simple and brilliant prose, this book left me slightly disappointed. The immigrant experience, though beautifully rendered, too often leans on cliché—and for a topic that demands such complexity, the lack of deeper insight fee ...more "

Jul 12, 2026 09:05AM · see review

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Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Maajed’s Quotes

“Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.”
― Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

tags: conflicts, history, possession, war

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“The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.”
― V. S. Naipaul, A Bend in the River

tags: exile, naipaul, racism

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“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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“[W]hat makes patriotic and religious fanatics such dangerous opponents is not the deaths of the fanatics themselves, but their willingness to accept the deaths of a fraction of their number in order to annihilate or crush their infidel enemy.”
― Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

tags: annihilation, death, fanaticism, radicalism, war

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