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“Now all you can do is wait. It must be hard for you, but there is a right time for everything. Like the ebb and flow of tides. No one can do anything to change them. When it is time to wait, you must wait.”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“Nobody has the right to remove any single experience from another. Life and death are promised. We have a right to pain.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“Without a true self, a person can not go on living. It is like the ground we stand on. Without the ground, we can build nothing.”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”
― The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
― The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
“Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another?
We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Around the World in 80 Books
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Shamim’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Shamim’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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63 friends
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