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The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself

by Daniel J. Boorstin

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Every Man Dies Alone

by Hans Fallada

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Nov 23, 2014 02:52PM

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Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World

by Nicholas Ostler

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Sep 05, 2014 10:49AM

“Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Grand Inquisitor

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“Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places.”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

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“We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong.”
― Sir Arthur S. Eddington

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“Sorry I painted the word 'twat' on your garage door.”
― David Shrigley

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“Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

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