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Pushpa is Currently Reading

Pushpa Jhawar is currently reading

About a Boy

by Nick Hornby

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Sep 03, 2025 10:49AM

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The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia

by Orlando Figes

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Pushpa’s Quotes

“Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”
― Mark Twain

tags: illusions, life

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“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

tags: life

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“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

tags: humor, scifi

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“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?”
― Emily Dickinson, Selected Letters

tags: poetry, power-of-words

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“Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

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