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The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon (The Sephardic Cycle, #1)

by Richard Zimler (Goodreads Author)

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"So far, I've found this novel more stimulating and rewarding than Marquez' "One Hundred Years of Solitude"." — 12 hours, 14 min ago

Apr 27, 2026 10:22PM

“Anyway—because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about next—and how we should think about it. We can fill our heads with anything from aardvarks to zucchinis—at any time of night or day.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

tags: philosophy, reading

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“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.”
― Philip K. Dick

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“At the end, all that's left of you are your possessions. Perhaps that's why I've never been able to throw anything away. Perhaps that's why I hoarded the world: with the hope that when I died, the sum total of my things would suggest a life larger than the one I lived.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

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“The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: humor

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“You’ve got to sing like you don’t need the money,
Love like you’ll never get hurt.
You’ve got to dance like nobody’s watchin’.”
― Richard Leigh, Come from the Heart Sheet Music

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