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Like Water for Chocolate

by Laura Esquivel

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"This is one of a few books by Latina authors given to me by a fellow writer/lover for Christmas a couple years ago.

So far, it's interesting in that the book takes a deep and immediate dive into the boundaries--or lack thereof--between food, the body, sex, and the mind and the Latin American understanding of them, which is somewhat alien to me." — Apr 03, 2017 02:59PM

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The Holy Bible Old and New Testaments in the King James Version

by Anonymous

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"During the time I'm taking away from the monastery for reflection/discernment, I'm reading the Psalms and other poetical books of the Bible. The first six Psalms seem to have a theme of "fear the Lord," which is slightly dispiriting." — Jul 18, 2016 06:24PM

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On What Matters: Volume One

by Derek Parfit

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"In what feels like another life, I was a philosophy student at Berkeley. I've been meaning to read these books for several years due to both the basic mission of the work and the fact that one of my former professors edited it.

And I am disappointed in myself that I put it off so long. The preface by Parfit is fucking hilarious. It makes me wish his fellowship at Oxford required him to teach." — Jan 23, 2018 12:45AM

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Daniel’s Quotes

“What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: distrust, loneliness

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“She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in a house cram fall of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.”
― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

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“Tis a Fearful Thing

‘Tis a fearful thing
to love what death can touch.

A fearful thing
to love, to hope, to dream, to be –

to be,
And oh, to lose.

A thing for fools, this,

And a holy thing,

a holy thing
to love.

For your life has lived in me,
your laugh once lifted me,
your word was gift to me.

To remember this brings painful joy.

‘Tis a human thing, love,
a holy thing, to love
what death has touched.”
― Judah Halevi

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“If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.”
― Paul of Tarsus, The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans

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“And several other times in my life, when I was swimming far out, or lying alone on a beach, I have had the same experience, became the sun, the hot sand, green seaweed anchored to a rock, swaying in the tide. Like a saint's vision of beatitude. Like the veil of things as they seem drawn back by an unseen hand. For a second you see, and seeing the secret, you are the secret. For a second there is meaning! Then the hand lets the veil fall and you are alone, lost in the fog again, and you stumble on towards nowhere for no good reason.”
― Eugene O'Neill, Long Day’s Journey into Night

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