Adarsh Chauhan

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Girl, Woman, Other

by Bernardine Evaristo

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Adarsh’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for The Design of Everyday Things

The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman

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Good design is actually a lot harder to notice than poor design, in part because good designs fit our needs so well that the design is invisible, serving us without drawing attention to itself. Bad design, on the other hand, screams out its ...more

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Lust For Life

by Irving Stone

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Northanger Abbey

by Jane Austen

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Adarsh’s Quotes

“It’s strange how you give the people you love so much power over you.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

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“Youth is the age of despairs.”
― Lawrence Durrell, The Alexandria Quartet

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“I realized then the truth about all love: that it is an absolute which takes all or forfeits all. The other feelings, compassion, tenderness and so on, exist only on the periphery and belong on the constructions of society and habit. But she herself- austere and merciless Aphrodite-is a pagan. it is not our brains or instincts which she picks-but our very bones.”
― Lawrence Durrell, The Alexandria Quartet

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“the desire to be near the beloved object is at first not due to the idea of possessing it, but simply to let the two experiences compare themselves, like reflections in different mirrors... For from here love degenerates into habit, possession, and back to loneliness.”
― Lawrence Durrell, The Alexandria Quartet

tags: self-awareness

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