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Bahut Door, Kitna Door Hota Hai

by Manav Kaul

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Mar 09, 2025 01:19AM

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

by Rebecca Skloot (Goodreads Author)

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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

by Edward Gibbon

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“Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

tags: advice-for-daily-living, inspirational, reading

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“She drew herself up to her full height—it was a little difficult on a donkey—and said primly, “I have always found that in painful situations it is a sensible idea to take each hour as it comes and not to anticipate beyond. But oh how I wish I could have a bath!”
― Dorothy Gilman, The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax

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“If there is any possible consolation in the tragedy of losing someone we love very much, it's the necessary hope that perhaps it was for the best.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

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“Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.”
― Philip José Farmer

tags: imagination, writing

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“Much like our capacity for causal inference, the human capacity for lying is one of the pillars that has shaped our success.”
― Justin Gregg, If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity

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