Thought provoking
“A bad wife is like Winter in a house.”
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He always ran away from the battle with himself.
D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence • Sons and Lovers
Something in her proud, honourable soul had crystallised out hard as rock.
D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence • Sons and Lovers
Rivalry causes us to overemphasize old opportunities and slavishly copy what has worked in the past.
Zero to One Peter Theil
love should give a sense of freedom, not of prison.
D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence • Sons and Lovers
The tattoo argument had lost all of its sting over the years and had become something like a familiar room where they met.
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Station Eleven: A Novel
Emily St. John Mandel
The first word written on the warrant of plunder is Africa.
Note:
Note:
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The Message
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Why put such a steep value on self-knowledge? Victoria veritatis est caritas. But was the victory of truth really love? Sometimes Mrs Touchet suspected Augustine of Hippo of over-egging the pudding. There are easy, self-serving truths, after all. And difficult, generous lies.
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The Fraud
Zadie Smith
She who had worn no masks and was therefore almost impossible to understand
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The Fraud
Zadie Smith