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Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain

by António Damásio

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"What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character

by Richard P. Feynman

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The Road to Character

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“You can't lie to your soul.”
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“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

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“All great and precious things are lonely.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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“There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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“I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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