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City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi

by William Dalrymple

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The Invention of Tradition

by Eric J. Hobsbawm

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Jun 29, 2020 12:28AM

“Our vanity, our self-love, promotes the cult of the genius,” Nietzsche said. “For if we think of genius as something magical, we are not obliged to compare ourselves and find ourselves lacking. . . . To call someone ‘divine’ means: ‘here there is no need to compete.”
― Angela Duckworth, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

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“Thinking is a kind of wandering. Reasoning becomes useful only to let the mind wander in the directions you want it to.”
― Martin Wickramasinghe, කලියුගය

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“Today, we turn to one person to provide what an entire village once did: a sense of grounding, meaning, and continuity. At the same time, we expect our committed relationships to be romantic as well as emotionally and sexually fulfilling. Is it any wonder that so many relationships crumble under the weight of it all?”
― Esther Perel, Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic

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