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Sophie is Currently Reading

Sophie is currently reading

Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)

by James S.A. Corey (Goodreads Author)

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Jan 01, 2026 03:42AM

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Rendez-vous avec Rama

by Arthur C. Clarke

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Dec 16, 2025 09:10AM

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The Sword of the Lictor

by Gene Wolfe

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Sophie’s Quotes

“Electra weeping for the dead Orestes. If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.”
― Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

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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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“Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.”
― Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

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“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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