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Gleam (The Plated Prisoner, #3)

by Raven Kennedy (Goodreads Author)

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HM said: " PSA: hating corsets isn’t a personality trait. It isn’t a sign that a character is inherently better or “not like other girls”.

This series has taught me that “male” instead of “man” is a huge ick for me.

Mmmh I took a few days off during the week an ...more "

Mar 28, 2025 04:34PM · see review

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The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

by Albert Camus

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Dec 24, 2023 08:19AM

HM’s Quotes

“And yet it is within the powers of a boring book to bore even the mind of God, as God well knows.”
― Selina Meyer, A Woman First: First Woman: A Memoir

tags: books, boredom, reading

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“Poetry is the mightiest vessel for philosophy,
Poetry is the mightiest vessel for science.
Though I started out with prose,
I went through the poetic morph.
Now all my science is poetry,
all my poetry is philosophy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion

tags: existentialism, humanist, humanitarian-scientist, philosophy-of-poetry, philosophy-of-science, poetic-cognition, poetic-prose, poetic-truth, scientific-philosophy, scientist-poet

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“For an earthbound species, I am native of earth - for an interplanetary species, I am native of Milky Way - for an intergalactic species, I am a native of the cosmos - for a lifeform beyond time and space, I am but a speck of carbon-based electrochemical memory.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion

tags: consciousness, humanity, interplanetary, multiculturalism, oneness, progress, space-exploration, space-travel

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“I am sorry for only two things. These two things are: I am sorry that I have mistreated some few animals in my lifetime, and I am sorry that I am unable to murder the whole damned human race.”
― Carl Panzram

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“Be simple and live simple, thus you rise incorruptible.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion

tags: incorruptible, life-lessons, pearls-of-wisdom, simple-life, simple-living, simple-pleasures, simplicity

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