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“My mind,” he said, “rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants.
“I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
“Not allowing people to go through their pain, and protecting them from it, may turn out to be a kind of over-protection, which in turn implies a certain lack of respect for the integrity and the intrinsic nature and the future development of the individual.”
― Toward a Psychology of Being
― Toward a Psychology of Being
“A fool may buy all the books in the world, and they will be in his library; but he will be able to read only those that he deserves to.”
― Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, 9 Vols.
― Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, 9 Vols.
“She had a passionate longing for the garden, the darkness, the pure sky, the stars.”
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“I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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Gavya’s 2025 Year in Books
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