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"Putting on pause, because, sadly, I left my copy outside in the rain, and now I need to get a new one. It's so soaked, some pages are dissolving. I was very much enjoying this, though. Every word struck like a hammer to a nail with precision and the underlying web of universal truth as its greatest motivator." — Aug 17, 2025 02:45PM
"Putting on pause, because, sadly, I left my copy outside in the rain, and now I need to get a new one. It's so soaked, some pages are dissolving. I was very much enjoying this, though. Every word struck like a hammer to a nail with precision and the underlying web of universal truth as its greatest motivator." — Aug 17, 2025 02:45PM
Watching you and Rafael posing together, I understood that you were no different from the red carpets—thrilling, but ultimately disposable, interchangeable. The only real sovereignty belonged to the producers, the jowly, deep-pocketed men
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“I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.”
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“Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things...as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value.”
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“we can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.”
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“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead —his eyes are closed. The insight into the mystery of life, coupled though it be with fear, has also given rise to religion. To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms—this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.”
― Living Philosophies
― Living Philosophies
The Short Story Club
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The purpose of this group is to read and discuss one short story a week. For the the first couple of years, we read from specific anthologies, but fro ...more
The book you like most
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Sarah’s 2025 Year in Books
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