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Alexis is Currently Reading

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Get It Done: Surprising Lessons from the Science of Motivation

by Ayelet Fishbach (Goodreads Author)

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"This is a struggle to listen to, I wish I had a hard copy" — Jan 08, 2025 06:49AM

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Pit Bull: The Battle over an American Icon

by Bronwen Dickey (Goodreads Author)

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Stray Birds

by Rabindranath Tagore

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"97
I think of other ages that floated upon the stream of life and
love and death and are forgotten, and I feel the freedom of
passing away.

This makes me sad. I don't want to be forgotten. The next few have gotten quite dark.
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Death's stamp gives value to the coin of life; making it possible
to buy with life what is truly precious." — Jun 08, 2020 10:56AM

Jan 08, 2020 07:02AM

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Alexis’s Notes & Highlights

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

6 highlights

How many times can a man go down and still be alive?

Before and After (Before and After, #1)

by Andrew Shanahan

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Alexis’s Quotes

“A fraction of what you believe to be the truth always lies behind a joke”
― Deb Apodaca, Captivated

4 likes

“Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes black.”
― Martin Amis, The Second Plane: September 11, 2001-2007

tags: love

1430 likes

“Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.”
― Sophocles

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“Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you.”
― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

tags: improbability, life

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“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

tags: life, philosophy, philosophy-of-life, progress

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