Rachel

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Rachel is Currently Reading

Rachel is currently reading

The Buried Giant

by Kazuo Ishiguro (Goodreads Author)

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Feb 14, 2026 04:05PM

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Dying Well: Peace and Possibilities at the End of Life

by Ira Byock

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Rachel said: " I enjoyed the first chapter last year, then set it aside. I'm looking forward to finishing. ...more "

May 15, 2012 06:13PM · see review

Rachel’s Quotes

“Every great dream begins with a dreamer”
― Harriet Tubman

tags: dream, dreamer

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“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
― Rumi

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“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

tags: art, capitalism, change, literature, power, resistance, writing

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“I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person now I was free. There was such glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees and I felt like I was in heaven.”
― Harriet Tubman

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“...it would be a very naive sort of dogmatism to assume that there exists an absolute reality of things which is the same for all living beings. Reality is not a unique and homogeneous thing; it is immensely diversified, having as many different schemes and patterns as there are different organisms. Every organism is, so to speak, a monadic being. It has a world of its own because it has an experience of its own. The phenomena that we find in the life of a certain biological species are not transferable to any other species. The experiences - and therefore the realities - of two different organisms are incommensurable with one another. In the world of a fly, says Uexkull, we find only "fly things"; in the world of a sea urchin we find only "sea urchin things.”
― Ernst Cassirer, An Essay on Man: An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture