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Shōgun, Volume 2

by James Clavell

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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

by William L. Shirer

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Nehru: The Invention of India by Shashi Tharoor

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The massacre made Indians out of millions of people who had not thought consciously of their political identity before that grim Sunday. It turned loyalists into nationalists and constitutionalists into agitators, led the Nobel ...more

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“A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

tags: love, self-love

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“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
― Stephen King

tags: life

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“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: books, mind

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“There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.”
― J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5: The Scripts of J. Michael Straczynski, Vol. 2

tags: self-awareness, suicide, vanity

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“When it comes to memory, we all stack the deck.”
― Stephen King, Duma Key

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