Irene

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Irene is Currently Reading

Irene is currently reading

The Measure of My Days

by Florida Scott-Maxwell

bookshelves: 0-to-annotate, 2026-tbr, about-death-or-grief, about-philosophy-or-psychology, audience-adult, format-ebook, from-library, genre-biography-or-memoir, genre-non-fiction, currently-reading

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Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error

by Kathryn Schulz (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: 2026-tbr, audience-adult, format-audiobook, from-library, genre-academic-or-essay, about-science-or-technology, about-philosophy-or-psychology, about-humanities-or-social-sciences, genre-non-fiction, currently-reading

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Irene’s Notes & Highlights

Hummingbird Salamander by Jeff Vandermeer

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I did and didn’t enjoy air travel back then. The quiet, cool cocoon, the ice in the glass just so, the smooth camaraderie of seasoned travelers broken only on occasion by the person to whom it was all too new. The freedom to be alone, to ...more

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Irene’s Quotes

“It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

tags: death, humor, life

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“Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”
― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

tags: humor

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“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
― Terry Pratchett, Jingo

tags: humor, proverb

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“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

tags: love

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“His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools -- the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans -- and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, 'You can't trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing you can do about it, so let's have a drink.”
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

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