Michael

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Michael is Currently Reading

Michael is currently reading

The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

bookshelves: classics, literature-russian, currently-reading

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Jan 09, 2026 06:46PM

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City of Last Chances (The Tyrant Philosophers, #1)

by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, fantasy

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Nov 06, 2025 09:23AM

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The Darkness and the Dawn

by Thomas B. Costain

bookshelves: classics, fiction, historical-fiction, currently-reading

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May 19, 2025 04:44PM

Michael’s Quotes

“There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.”
― Dante Alighieri

tags: memories, misery, sadness, sorrow

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“All the mortal things I had been revering in my life, everything that I was looking up to in awe suddenly came down to eye level in front of me and all the mortal things I had looked down upon and patronized in my life, suddenly rose up to eye level. Now, the world was flat and I was looking it in the eye.”
― Matthew McConaughey, Greenlights

tags: grief, introspection, loss, maturation, transformation

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“We live as we dream - alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

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“Is love so paltry a thing, to be plucked and dropped to the ground at the first breath of contempt?”
― Steven Erikson, Fall of Light

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“Tyler stood to go. “There’s a world out there, Tara,” he said. “And it will look a lot different once Dad is no longer whispering his view of it in your ear.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

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