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Vera is Currently Reading

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Die Känguru-Chroniken (Die Känguru-Chroniken, #1)

by Marc-Uwe Kling

bookshelves: 2018, audiobook, funny, read-in-german, currently-reading, 2026

Reading for the 2nd time

read in April 2018

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Vera Marsova said: " Irgendwie genau so habe ich mir ein kommunistisches Känguru immer vorgestellt.

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Gone With the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

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Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

by Chip Heath

bookshelves: 2024, audiobook, nonfiction, currently-reading

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Vera’s Notes & Highlights

The Art of War by Sun Tzu

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He who relies solely on warlike measures shall be exterminated; he who relies solely on peaceful measures shall perish.

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Vera’s Quotes

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage

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“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”
― Henry Ford

tags: thinking

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“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom

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“My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

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“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
― Anais Nin

tags: death, love

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