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Rex is Currently Reading

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The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

bookshelves: classics, dostoyevsky, favorites, fiction, russia, europe, lent, 2026, currently-reading

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…liked to act the fool and assume all sorts of surprising roles; he would do so even when he had nothing to gain, indeed, even when it could be positively to his disadvantage…This is a quirk found in many people, even very clever ones…

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Brothers Karamazov: Worlds of the Novel

by Robin Feuer Miller

bookshelves: fiction, classics, russia, 2026, dostoyevsky, literature-studies-criticism, lent, currently-reading

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Divine justice pales before the enormity of earthly injustice and loss.

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Bombay Stories (Vintage International)

by Saadat Hasan Manto

bookshelves: 2025, favorites, fiction, india, pakistan, short-stories, south-asia, urdu, manto, currently-reading

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Rex’s Notes & Highlights

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

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So long as there shall exist, by reason of law and custom, a social condemnation which, in the midst of civilization, artificially creates a hell on earth, and complicates with human fatality a destiny that is divine; so long as the three ...more

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Rex’s Quotes

“Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.”
― G K Chesterton

tags: history

101 likes

“I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: anna-karenina, love, tolstoy

1689 likes

“I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books

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“The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

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