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War and Peace is not what I expected from Tolstoy. I had read much of the way through Ana Karenina 15 years ago, enjoying the semi-autobiographical passages about Levin, but suffering through the greater part of the book that dealt with Ana and Vrons
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In Walden, Thoreau is often cranky and sour, or I'd give him 5 stars. But we are all at times cranky and sour, and perhaps Thoreau was simply incorrigibly candid.Thoreau's honesty unveils truth in an unusual way, and we can't help but be stirred to o ...more "
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“[T]he unsympathetic assessments we make of others are usually the result of nothing more sinister than our habit of looking at them in the wrong way, through lenses clouded by distraction, exhaustion and fear, which blind us to the fact that they are really, despite a thousand differences, just altered versions of ourselves: fellow fragile, uncertain, flawed beings likewise craving love and in urgent need of forgiveness.”
― Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion
― Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion
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