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“None of us may want to claim to live life in two parallel lanes but all have many lives, one tucked beneath or right alongside the other. Some lives wait their turn because they haven't been lived at all, while others die before they've lived out their time, and some are waiting to be relived because they haven't been lived enough.”
― Find Me
― Find Me
“In parallel, he devised a system of underpasses and circuitous routes for Palestinian villagers who were barred from accessing the settler highways cutting through their lands. These were given the benevolent-sounding name of "fabric of life" roads. In private, Israeli officials called the something more honest. Speaking to the US ambassador in Tel Aviv, who summarised the conversation in a diplomatic cable, Israel's deputy defense minister referred to them as "apartheid roads.”
― A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
― A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
“No one really wants to be idealized - we want to be seen and accepted and forgiven, and to know that we can be ourselves in our less edifying moments.”
― Conversations on Love
― Conversations on Love
“I’m going to repeat myself again: jiko—all-inclusive self—is wholly one. That is one/one, two/two, all/all. Jiko is born as wholly one. This wholly one is not simply one human being among all humanity, nor merely one member among all the members of a society—some sort of cog in a wheel. Everything that is seen or heard or felt—everything—forms the content of jiko that is all/all. At the same time, this is also all times/all times. It is the life of all/all, all times / all times that we are actually living out.”
― Deepest Practice, Deepest Wisdom: Three Fascicles from Shobogenzo with Commentary
― Deepest Practice, Deepest Wisdom: Three Fascicles from Shobogenzo with Commentary
“Now she tried to imagine what she might be if she were living somewhere else. 'What if I were a sparkle perched right on top of the stars, or a bird flitting along from rooftop to rooftop and branch to branch?' she pondered, letting her thoughts spin out of control and become more and more strange. One day, as she sat alone in a corner looking at Atiye, she asked herself, 'Now who is this woman?' Then, turning her eyes on her elder brother and Zekiye, she thought, 'And who're they?' Growing frightened, Dirmit found that the more she looked the less she knew any of these people.”
― Sevgili Arsız Ölüm
― Sevgili Arsız Ölüm
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Willem’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Willem’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Fiction, History, Memoir, Non-fiction, Poetry, Politics, Psychology, Self help, social-justice, and economics
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