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"I always wanted to read The Man in the High Castle, after having seen the TV series based on it many years ago. Reading it now feels, somehow, like the only way to survive the news we hear about the horrors of the #IranMassacre. It shows a glimpse of hope that, always -always -a better world is possible. Even in the middle of the darkest times, when imagining otherwise feels almost unbearable." — Jan 29, 2026 05:25AM
"I always wanted to read The Man in the High Castle, after having seen the TV series based on it many years ago. Reading it now feels, somehow, like the only way to survive the news we hear about the horrors of the #IranMassacre. It shows a glimpse of hope that, always -always -a better world is possible. Even in the middle of the darkest times, when imagining otherwise feels almost unbearable." — Jan 29, 2026 05:25AM
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
“There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.”
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“Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!”
― A Prayer for Owen Meany
― A Prayer for Owen Meany
“Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved”
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“It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.”
― Daniel Deronda
― Daniel Deronda
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