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“We must be willing to encounter darkness and despair when they come up and face them, over and over again if need be, without running away or numbing ourselves in the thousands of ways we conjure up to avoid the unavoidable.”
― Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
― Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
“He was suffering from the loss of an illusion.”
― Scaramouche
― Scaramouche
“We have to walk by faith to possess all that is duly ours.”
― Think Great: Be Great!
― Think Great: Be Great!
“A man could shoot a squirrel out of a tree from a distance of sixty feet. But he couldn't vomit into a bucket or pee into a pot only two feet away. It was one of the great mysteries of life.”
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“At this rate, I'd be lucky if I wrote a page a day.
Then I knew what the problem was.
I needed experience.
How could I write about life when I'd never had a love affair or a baby or even seen anybody die? A girl I knew had just won a prize for a short story about her adventures among the pygmies in Africa. How could I compete with that sort of thing?”
― The Bell Jar
Then I knew what the problem was.
I needed experience.
How could I write about life when I'd never had a love affair or a baby or even seen anybody die? A girl I knew had just won a prize for a short story about her adventures among the pygmies in Africa. How could I compete with that sort of thing?”
― The Bell Jar
Rahul’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Rahul’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
254 books
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73 friends
130 books
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24 books
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109 friends
21 books
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75 friends
66 books
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80 friends
21 books
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59 friends
6 books
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30 friends
1 book
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33 friends
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