Ashwini
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The flower, when it wilts, becomes the compost. The compost can help grow a flower again. Happiness is also organic and impermanent by nature. It can become suffering and suffering can become happiness again.
“The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.”
― Monstrous Regiment
― Monstrous Regiment
“There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do.”
― A Hat Full of Sky
― A Hat Full of Sky
“Everything starts somewhere, though many physicists disagree. But people have always been dimly aware of the problem with the start of things. They wonder how the snowplough driver gets to work, or how the makers of dictionaries look up the spelling of words.”
― Hogfather
― Hogfather
“In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”
― Lords and Ladies
― Lords and Ladies
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Ashwini’s 2025 Year in Books
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