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“Books,” Girindra said to me through Shankar one day, “reveal the histories of people who did many charming things years ago. Those people may no longer be living, yet we can read about them today, because books are written. Human beings
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“Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
“We rise again in the grass. In the flowers. In songs.”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
“It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
“Most lead lives at worst so painful, at best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of the principle appetites of the soul.”
― The Doors of Perception
― The Doors of Perception
“To be enlightened is to be aware, always, of total reality in its immanent otherness - to be aware of it and yet remain in a condition to survive as an animal. Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be. Unhappily we make the task exceedingly difficult for ourselves.”
― The Doors of Perception
― The Doors of Perception
Tamara’s 2025 Year in Books
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