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Persistence isn’t very glamorous. If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the one percent.
“There is a moment, a cusp, when the sum of gathered experience is worn down by the details of living. We are never so wise as when we live in this moment.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“And do you know, do you know that mankind can live without the Englishman, it can live without Germany, it can live only too well without the Russian man, it can live without science, without BREAD, and it only cannot live without beauty. . . . Demons
Fyodor Dostoevsky
(1872)”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
Fyodor Dostoevsky
(1872)”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
“But as the Countess Rostov liked to remark: If patience wasn’t so easily tested, then it would hardly be a virtue. . . .”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
― A Gentleman in Moscow
“How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense",”
― Metamorphosis
― Metamorphosis
“The Count’s assertion had seemed so axiomatic that he had not prepared an elaboration.”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
― A Gentleman in Moscow
Sagar’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Sagar’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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75 friends
3,017 books
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142 friends
204 books
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80 friends
83 books
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105 books
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4 friends
735 books
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8 friends
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Classics, Fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Romance, Self help, Suspense, Thriller, and Young-adult
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