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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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Jan 29, 2026 01:41AM

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Cien años de soledad

by Gabriel García Márquez

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

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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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“All truth is simple ... is that not doubly a lie?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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“For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.”
― Albert Camus, Summer in Algiers

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“Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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