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Michela

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Michela is Currently Reading

Michela is currently reading

Ballata di Natale

by Charles Dickens

bookshelves: good-old-classics, currently-reading

read in December 2020

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"I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round (…) as a good time; (…) when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, (…) and therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!»" — Dec 17, 2025 02:34PM

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Fiabe coreane

by James S. Gale

bookshelves: currently-reading, adventures-and-fairytales, oriental

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Oct 29, 2025 02:51PM

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Il viaggio in occidente

by Wu Cheng'en

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"Scimmiotto dovette piacere alla gente anche per l’insolito spirito di indipendenza con cui si rivolgeva al potere costituito,l’esercitando ora la ribellione,ora il mugugno;è probabile che,
se fosse nato prima o dopo,avrebbe dovuto rinunciare alla sua bella disinvoltura.queste circostanze aiutano a spiegare la sorprendente capacità che dimostra Scimmiotto di parlare(o far parlare la Cina)al lettore occidentale." — Jul 01, 2025 01:04PM

Jul 01, 2025 11:33AM

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Michela’s Notes & Highlights

Stoner by John Williams

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Sua madre sopportava la vita con pazienza, come una lunga disgrazia destinata a finire.

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Michela’s Quotes

“Black man cleans the streets but mustn't walk freely on the pavement; Black man must build houses for the white man but cannot live in them; Black man cooks the white man's food but eats what is left over. Don't listen to anyone bluff you and say Black and white are brothers.”
― Es’kia Mphahlele

tags: black, men

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“The traces of the dinosaurs howl in our memories. Had they been alive we would have exterminated them, but we respect their traces. It is the same with the human race: the more we imperil it, the more meticulously we preserve its remains.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Fragments

tags: aphorisms, baudrillard, climate-change, dinosaurs, extinction, fossils, human-extinction

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“Only years of practice will teach you the mysteries and bold certainty of a real gardener, who treads at random, yet tramples on nothing.”
― Karel Čapek

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“Unable to perceive the shape of You,
I find You all around me.
Your presence fills my eyes with Your love,
It humbles my heart,
For You are everywhere.”
― Hakim Sanai

tags: rumi-poetry

332 likes