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You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty

by Akwaeke Emezi (Goodreads Author)

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Mar 01, 2026 01:55PM

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These Memories Do Not Belong to Us

by Yiming Ma (Goodreads Author)

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Feb 28, 2026 11:40AM

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Running with the Mind of Meditation: Lessons for Training Body and Mind

by Sakyong Mipham

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Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jedrowski

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I am done with pretending that I’ve erased you from my mind. Some things cannot be erased through silence. Some people have that power over you, whether you like it or not. I begin to see that now. Some people, some events, make you lose ...more

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing (Magic Cleaning #1)

by Marie Kondō

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Shelby’s Quotes

“Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.”
― Charles Baudelaire, The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays

tags: genius

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“Maybe we feel empty because we leave pieces of ourselves in everything we used to love.”
― R. M. Drake

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“What are you reading? isn’t a simple question when asked with genuine curiosity; it’s really a way of asking, Who are you now and who are you becoming?”
― Will Schwalbe, Books for Living

tags: books, literature, reading, words

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“Solitude is a chosen separation for refining your soul. Isolation is what you crave when you neglect the first.”
― Wayne Cordeiro, Leading on Empty: Refilling Your Tank and Renewing Your Passion

tags: isolation, jesus-christ, pastor, pastoral, pastoral-ministry, refuge, solitude

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