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The Reality Dysfunction 2: Expansion (Night's Dawn 1)

by Peter F. Hamilton (Goodreads Author)

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Jan 24, 2026 01:04PM

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Les Détectives sauvages

by Roberto Bolaño

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Jan 17, 2026 02:25PM

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The Sword of the Lictor (The Book of the New Sun, #3)

by Gene Wolfe

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Feb 05, 2025 12:38AM

“The people come to understand that wealth is not the fruit of labour but the result of organised, protected robbery. Rich people are no longer respectable people; they are nothing more than flesh eating animals, jackals and vultures which wallow in the people's blood.”
― Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth

tags: africa, algeria, capitalism, colonialism, imperialism, inequality, philosophy, politics, revolution

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“You could not be born at a better period than the present, when we have lost everything.”
― Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

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“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”
― Simone Weil

tags: ethics, evil, good, morality, reality

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“The true life is absent.' But we are in the world. Metaphysics arises and is maintained in this alibi.”
― Emmanuel Lévinas, Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority

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“Faith is not a question of the existence or non-existence of God. It is believing that love without reward is valuable.”
― Emmanuel Levinas

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