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A World To See: A Novel

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My Struggle: Book 3

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Alex O'Connor said: " While this one certainly had a much slower start, I was nonetheless quickly drawn into Karl Ove's world... Childhood is certainly of less interest to me than his contemporary life, but even so, I really had a wonderful time reading this - a compulsiv ...more "

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Early Christian Readings of Genesis One: Patristic Exegesis and Literal Interpretation

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“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”
― David Foster Wallace, The Pale King

tags: words

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“The limits of my language means the limits of my world.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

tags: language, perception, power-of-words

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“Two blind men waited at the end of an era, contemplating beauty.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

tags: hoid, wit

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“Step out of my sunlight.”
― Diogenes Laertius

tags: philosophy

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“Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he lay dying in a foreign land, "The descent to hell is the same from every place.”
― Diogenes Laërtius

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