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Tales of Hazaribagh: An Intimate Exploration of Chhotanagpur Plateau

by Mihir Vatsa (Goodreads Author)

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The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

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And I knew that in spite of all the roses and kisses and restaurant dinners a man showered on a woman before he married her, what he secretly wanted when the wedding service ended was for her to flatten out underneath his feet like Mrs ...more

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Madonna in a Fur Coat

by Sabahattin Ali

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Deepika’s Quotes

“To be a learner, you've got to be willing to be a fool.”
― George Leonard, Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment

tags: learning, perfectionism

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“When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that last blow that did it—but all that had gone before.”
― James Clear, Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

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“The only true voyage of discovery (is) to behold the universe through the eyes of another - Marcel Proust”
― Beau Lotto, Deviate: The Science of Seeing Differently

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“Someone once said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism. We can now revise that and witness the attempt to imagine capitalism by way of imagining the end of the world.”
― Fredric Jameson

tags: capitalism

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“The air is so crisp it gives me a brief, delusive sense of health and youth. Those I don’t have, but I have learned not to scorn the substitutes: quiet, plenty of time, and a job to spend it on.”
― Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose

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