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Jay is Currently Reading

Jay is currently reading

Urdesh: The Serpent and the Saint (Urdesh #1)

by Matthew Farrer

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The Spirit Of Dorsai

by Gordon R. Dickson

bookshelves: 2025-books, fiction, sci-fi, currently-reading

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Jay’s Quotes

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

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“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

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“The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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