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Chinese Shadows

by Simon Leys

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On War

by Carl von Clausewitz

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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

by James C. Scott

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James’s Quotes

“What do you do from morning to night?"

"I endure myself.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

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“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

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“What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, a superfluous, labor of verification.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

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“It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

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“Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.”
― James Baldwin, Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone

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