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Costangeles’s Bookshelves

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Costangeles is Currently Reading

Costangeles is currently reading

Melmoth the Wanderer

by Charles Robert Maturin

bookshelves: classic-literature, currently-reading

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Oct 30, 2026 05:19AM

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The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter

by Joseph Henrich

bookshelves: anthropology, currently-reading

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Oct 29, 2026 12:01AM

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The Hero of Ages (Mistborn, #3)

by Brandon Sanderson (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: fantasy, currently-reading

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Oct 26, 2026 03:40AM

Costangeles’s Quotes

“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: goals-in-life, purpose-of-life

3105 likes

“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

tags: perspective, positive-attitude

3221 likes

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: lies, love, respect, self-deception, truth

12170 likes

“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: hell, love, suffering

5789 likes

“She made herself stronger by fighting with the wind.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

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