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Varsha Reddy

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Varsha is Currently Reading

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The Tokyo Zodiac Murders

by Sōji Shimada

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Oct 13, 2025 02:38PM

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I Will Teach You to Be Rich: No Guilt. No Excuses. No BS. Just a 6-Week Program That Works

by Ramit Sethi (Goodreads Author)

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Raag Darbari [Paperback] [Jul 20, 2012] Shrilal Shukla and Gillian Wright (Tr.)

by श्रीलाल शुक्ल

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"This book has been languishing in my shelf for almost a decade, and in my currently reading for a few months. But last week, I had the most unexpected conversation about it in the most unexpected place with the most unexpected person. And I decided to give it another shot." — Sep 27, 2025 09:52PM

Sep 27, 2025 09:48PM

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Varsha’s Quotes

“A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

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“Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.”
― Clifford Geertz

tags: psychology

103 likes

“This will destroy that. The book will kill the edifice.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

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“Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

tags: anchoring, attachment, belonging, comfort, completion, fulfillment, home, irrevocability, permanence, philosophy, psychology, safety, security, state-of-mind

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“The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius...”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

tags: architecture

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