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The Dictionary of Lost Words

by Pip Williams

bookshelves: 1-2026, currently-reading

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Ulysses

by James Joyce

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Ramesh’s Quotes

“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

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“In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

tags: laws

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“The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.”
― Mark Twain

tags: animals, dogs, heaven, inspirational, man, religion

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“What did religion do to people, to provoke such obstinancy, such hysteria - how did it push people to the stage of torturing themselves and killing each other? ”
― Manil Suri, The Death of Vishnu

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“We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

tags: depression

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