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The Devils (The Devils, #1)

by Joe Abercrombie

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Republic of Caste: Thinking Equality in the Time of Neoliberal Hindutva

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The Complete The Killer

by Matz

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Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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Such a man has a double existence: he may suffer misery, and be overwhelmed by disappointments; yet when he has retired into himself, he will be like a celestial spirit, that has a halo around him, within whose circle no grief or folly ...more

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“I would not care whether truth is pleasant or unpleasant, and in consonance with or opposed to current views. I would not mind in the least whether truth is, or is not, a blow to the glory of my country. If necessary, I shall bear in patience the ridicule and slander of friends and society for the sake of preaching truth. But still I shall seek truth, understand truth, and accept truth. This should be the firm resolve of a historian”
― Jadunath Sarkar

tags: bias, historians, history, leftist-history

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“Hoping for a thing often seems the best way o’ bringing on the opposite”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Trouble with Peace

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“You can’t change the fact the world’s full of arseholes. You can only change how you deal with them.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Trouble with Peace

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“You can never have too many knives.”
― Joe Ambercrombie

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“A man is measured by his enemies. Worthy ones can be more missed than friends.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Trouble with Peace

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