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Tales of Hazaribagh: An Intimate Exploration of Chhotanagpur Plateau

by Mihir Vatsa (Goodreads Author)

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Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali

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Although I was twenty-four years old, I had not yet freed myself of the naivety of youth. I had allowed myself to be possessed by a simple painting, which probably wasn’t even that good. I had read enough ideas into that pale face to fill a ...more

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The Bell Jar

by Sylvia Plath

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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 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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“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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“You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.”
― James Clear, Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

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