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The Adventures of Tom Bombadil

by J.R.R. Tolkien

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The Thorn Birds

by Colleen McCullough

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The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

by Masha Gessen

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Tonja’s Quotes

“I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these ‘how’ and ‘why’ questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.”
― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

tags: adult, answer, child, curiosity, exploration, life, mind, question

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“When things are bad,” Axe said, walking next to me as we left the December meeting, “no one cares that ‘things could have been worse.”
― Barack Obama, A Promised Land

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“A nationalist will say that “it can’t happen here,” which is the first step toward disaster. A patriot says that it could happen here, but that we will stop it.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

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“Мова зникає, коли нею не говорять про любов.”
― Serhiy Zhadan, Тамплієри

tags: мова

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“Auch ist es vielleicht nicht eigentlich Liebe wenn ich sage, daß Du mir das Liebste bist; Liebe ist, dass Du mir das Messer bist, mit dem ich in mir wühle.

An Milena Jesenska (14. September 1920)”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

tags: kafka, liebe, love

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