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“For we live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; and our time should be counted in the throbs of our hearts as we love and help, learn and strive, and make from our talents whatever can increase the stock of the world’s good.”
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“If the first requirement of a civilisation is the possession of its own language, the second must be the pursuit of a literary tradition. Books are, in historian Barbara Tuchman's words, the carriers of civilisation.”
― Yiddish Civilisation: The Rise and Fall of a Forgotten Nation
― Yiddish Civilisation: The Rise and Fall of a Forgotten Nation
“For there is no doubt that imaginative geography and history hello the mind to intensify its own sense of itself by dramatising the distance and difference between what is close to it and what is far away.”
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“Reality brands each of us with its indelible mark. Every era puts invisible shackles on those who have lived through it, and I can only dance in my chains.”
― Cixin Liu Three Body Problem 4 Books Collection Set
― Cixin Liu Three Body Problem 4 Books Collection Set
“There is nothing mysterious or natural about authority. It is formed, irradiated, disseminated; it is instrumental, it is persuasive; it has status, it establishes cannons of taste and value; it is virtually indistinguishable from certain ideas it dignifies as true, and from traditions, perceptions, and judgements it forms, transmits, reproduces. Above all, authority can, indeed must, be analysed.”
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Dipankar’s 2024 Year in Books
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