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Michael is Currently Reading

Michael Belcher is currently reading

Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche

by Haruki Murakami

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Feb 15, 2026 10:13AM

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The Sea, the Sea

by Iris Murdoch

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Jan 11, 2026 11:10AM

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Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)

by Hilary Mantel

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Michael’s Quotes

“Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?”
― Lawrence Durrell, Justine

tags: silence

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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

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“When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.”
― Sean O'Casey, THREE MORE PLAYS BY SEAN O'CASEY:THE SILVER TASSIE;PURPLE DUST;RED ROSES FOR ME [Paperback]

tags: hope, sun

1911 likes

“It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

tags: love, poets, romance

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“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

tags: birth, identity, life, self

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