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Readosaurus is Currently Reading

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The Transit of Venus

by Shirley Hazzard

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Oct 14, 2025 01:53AM

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Shooting an Elephant

by George Orwell

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Oct 06, 2025 03:12AM

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MacLean's Miscellany of Whisky

by Charles MacLean

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Readosaurus’s Quotes

“But what’s right and what’s good must be judged by one who knows all, but not by us.”
― Leo Tolstoy

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“The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.”
― David Graeber, The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy

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“Ah! Vanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied? - Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.”
― Thackeray William Makepeace, Vanity Fair

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“Blest are those
Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled,
That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger
To sound what stop she please.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

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“You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.”
― Franz Kafka

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