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Hazel is Currently Reading

Hazel is currently reading

Social Capital: A Theory of Social Structure and Action (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences, Series Number 19)

by Nan Lin

bookshelves: currently-reading, 2000-2009, a-most-educational, a-non-fiction, american, east-asian, north-of-mexico, z-male-authors, z-not-white-authors

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Gone with the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

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Hazel ’s Quotes

“Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his life.”
― George Eliot, Silas Marner

tags: idolatry, love, work

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“Happiness is not an absolute value. It is a state of comparison.”
― Zadie Smith, NW

tags: comparison, happiness

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“Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe. There is no gift for the beloved. The lover alone possesses his gift of love. The loved one is shorn, neutralized, frozen in the glare of the lover’s inward eye.”
― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

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“I feel I stand in a desert with my hands outstretched, and you are raining down upon me.”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

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“Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of one's own resources.”
― Zadie Smith, NW

tags: illusion, lies, life, resources, work

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500 Great Books By Women — 1625 members — last activity Sep 01, 2025 05:18AM
500 Great Books By Women A Reader's Guide to the Worlds of Women's Writing Be sure to check out the bookshelf and see if you've reviewed any of the ...more

What next, now notifications are reduced, DMs abolished, so GR is dying? — 320 members — last activity Oct 07, 2026 02:51PM
On 20 Sept 2024, GR removed the option for email notifications, without telling users (unless they looked at the "help" page). In-app/web notification ...more