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‘So you don’t drink anymore?’ ‘Not really. Even now I don’t mind a sip or two.’ The phrase he used ‘pee-poo laida ey’ is richly redolent with typical Punjabi sangfroid and nonchalance.
“and when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. what do you call it, freedom or loneliness?”
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“The apartment below mine had the only balcony of the house. I saw a girl standing on it, completely submerged in the pool of autumn twilight. She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.”
― A Girl I Knew
― A Girl I Knew
“Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering...”
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“I follow up the quest despite of day and night and death and hell.”
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“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”
― Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes
― Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes
Akshay’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Akshay’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
88 books
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66 friends
1,113 books
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147 friends
225 books
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140 friends
892 books
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128 friends
307 books
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325 friends
807 books
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111 friends
625 books
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60 friends
63 books
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191 friends
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