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A World To See: A Novel

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Angel Walks Through the Stage and Other Essays (Norwegian Literature)

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It was good! Entertaining and interesting. Not particularly deep and also didn’t get into some of the theories, especially regarding the return. Still good and makes me want to rewatch the show.
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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

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

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“Step out of my sunlight.”
― Diogenes Laertius

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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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