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Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)

by James S.A. Corey (Goodreads Author)

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read in May 2019

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Between the World and Me (One World Essentials) by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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This leads us to another equally important ideal, one that Americans implicitly accept but to which they make no conscious claim. Americans believe in the reality of “race” as a defined, indubitable feature of the natural world. Racism—the ...more

The Left Hand of Darkness (Hainish Cycle, #4)

by Ursula K. Le Guin

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Michael’s Quotes

“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

tags: ironic, sad

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“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

tags: love, poetry

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