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“When people concentrate on the idea of beauty, they are, without realizing it, confronted with the darkest thoughts that exist in this world. That, I suppose, is how human beings are made.”
― The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
― The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
“...while cleverness is appropriate to rhetoric, and inventiveness to poetry, truth alone is appropriate to history.”
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“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”
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“We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.”
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“Even broken in spirit as he is, no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of nature. The starry sky, the sea, and every sight afforded by these wonderful regions, seems still to have the power of elevating his soul from earth. Such a man has a double existence: he may suffer misery, and be overwhelmed by disappointments; yet, when he has retired into himself, he will be like a celestial spirit that has a halo around him, within whose circle no grief or folly ventures.”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
Aṣwin’s 2025 Year in Books
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642 books
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