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Ah. The first time I read Wuthering Heights, it was the most terrible and frustrating thing to do. But as I kept rereading it over the years, it has become endearing .

She’s not really into cryptology unless she can read all of Joseph’s dialogue in Wuthering Heights.

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#nofilterbooklrchallenge

Books are the most beautiful things ever. Put them on a table or a shelf and it changes the feel and ambience of the area. I love books, always have. But @sonderreads nofilterbooklr challenge has come to remind us that the real beauty of a book is in what is written within it, rather than how it looks.

So I present these two books I've nicked from my mom's possessions. The first one is Othello, which my mother purchased around the late 1980s. I read it for the first time in 2004. The other one is older. Its a hand me downs gift to my mother from an elder cousin. It's a 1974 publication and I first read it around 2004. Both these are very close to my heart.

I'd like you to look at its price. It's Indian rupees 1.50 and today, we can't get candy for that much money! Also, the pages have gone past yellow and taken a brown colour.

This one is almost falling apart, mostly because it's too well loved. It's a book I read and then read again and then again. Hope you like these .

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#nofilterbooklrchallenge

Books are the most beautiful things ever. Put them on a table or a shelf and it changes the feel and ambience of the area. I love books, always have. But @sonderreads nofilterbooklr challenge has come to remind us that the real beauty of a book is in what is written within it, rather than how it looks.

So I present these two books I've nicked from my mom's possessions. The first one is Othello, which my mother purchased around the late 1980s. I read it for the first time in 2004. The other one is older. Its a hand me downs gift to my mother from an elder cousin. It's a 1974 publication and I first read it around 2004. Both these are very close to my heart.

I'd like you to look at its price. It's Indian rupees 1.50 and today, we can't get candy for that much money! Also, the pages have gone past yellow and taken a brown colour.

This one is almost falling apart, mostly because it's too well loved. It's a book I read and then read again and then again. Hope you like these .

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Late night dose of mythology. Summary translation of Sage Valmiki's Ramayana. For when I can't sleep.

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This quote is from "Mossad" by Michael Bar-Zohar, Nissim Mishal -

""Without stratagems would a people fall, and deliverance is in a wise counsel.""

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‘People are always too clever with their eldest children and try to make something exceptional of them,’ said the visitor.

War and peace by Leo Tolstoy

See,

even Tolstoy agrees.

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If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be;

and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger:

I should not seem a part of it.—

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Bronte

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"Wherever in the world the little room of literature has been closed, sooner or later the walls have come tumbling down."

Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie

Isn't it true that banning of books or any sort of art, for that matter, just increases its popularity?

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"He will live to see them make him a national hero and he will die the only person thinking he had failed. That's what happens when you personify hopes and dreams in one person. He becomes nothing more than a literary device. "

-A BRIEF HISTORY OF SEVEN KILLINGS .

This quote always reminds me of Gandhi in the context of the Indian Freedom Movements. Tell me who this quote reminds you of ?

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Their harsh words drove her to the comforting words in books instead. The lands behind their colorful covers, the ideas and the characters within these books became her real friends—

Chemistry and timing by thebookbully ( Harry Potter fanfiction)

And how true this is? Sometimes I wonder if my love of books would have developed as it did, if my peers- classmates and cousins had been less harsh and more accepting of me. But I am thankful for it nonetheless. No person can be as a good a friend as a good book .

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"Remember that what you are told is really threefold: shaped by the teller, reshaped by the listener, concealed from both by the dead man of the tale…"

-Vladimir Nabokov

#vladimir nabokov #book quotes #life quote #quoteoftheday #quotes #russian writers #perception

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So so true.

What we read makes us what we are.

#books and libraries #bookworm #booklover #books #quoteoftheday #life quote #book quotes #ralph waldo emerson

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