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"this book is DENSE. it's been a while since i truly challenged myself both in terms of prose and writing style and the intelectual content that i consume. this is a fun book and a genuinely good one" — May 15, 2026 09:08AM
"this book is DENSE. it's been a while since i truly challenged myself both in terms of prose and writing style and the intelectual content that i consume. this is a fun book and a genuinely good one" — May 15, 2026 09:08AM
“It is said that heaven does not create one man above or below another man. Any existing distinction between the wise and the stupid, between the rich and the poor, comes down to a matter of education.”
― The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa
― The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa
“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“Avoid creating a hierarchy of human suffering as if compassion were a finite resource.”
― Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People’s Business
― Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People’s Business
“Caste is insidious and therefore powerful because it is not hatred, it is not necessarily personal. It is the worn grooves of comforting routines and unthinking expectations, patterns of a social order that have been in place for so long that it looks like the natural order of things.”
― Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
― Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
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