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Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense

by Rory Sutherland

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Feb 08, 2026 01:49PM

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Yes To Life In Spite of Everything

by Viktor E. Frankl

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Cien años de soledad

by Gabriel García Márquez

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James’s Quotes

“All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.”
― Goethe

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“This is the true measure of love: when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

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“We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out of our Edens.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Study and discussion of the important questions of ethical and political philosophy from Confucius and Socrates to the present. Rules (see also the ...more

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