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Jason Arias is the author of the short story collection Momentary Illumination of Objects In Motion and the poetry collection nostraDAMus 2032. He lives and writes on the Oregon coast.

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	Momentary Illumination of Objects In Motion 4.43 avg rating — 28 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Becoming Home: Journeying Through the Rooms of My Past to Reclaim My Story by Ashleigh G Stevens, Jason Arias (Goodreads Author) (Artwork), Tori Thacher (editor) 4.95 avg rating — 19 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Clowns: The Unlikely Coulrophobia Remix by Mari Ness, Derek Manuel, Sara K. McNeilly 3.80 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Holes in Everything and other stories by Christian Ulstrup (Contributor), Rocco Blue (Contributor), Sue Mitchell (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	nostraDAMus 2032: clear viSions of the END 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Animal Stories (Undelivered Lectures)

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The Politics of Experience/The Bird of Paradise

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“-Who are those people by whom you wish to be admired? Are they not these whom you are in the habit of saying that they are mad? What then? Do you wish to be admired by the mad?”
― Epictetus, The Discourses

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“-….when things seem to have reached that stage, merely say “I won’t play any longer”, and take your departure; but if you stay, stop lamenting.”
― Epictetus

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