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Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy (Southern Reach, #1-3)

by Jeff Vandermeer (Goodreads Author)

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Anxious for Nothing: God's Cure for the Cares of Your Soul (John Macarthur Study)

by John F. MacArthur Jr.

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Aug 13, 2020 09:12PM

“The only beautiful things, as somebody once said, are the things that do not concern us. As long as a thing is useful or necessary to us...it is outside the proper sphere of art.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

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“He could see plainly that she was not herself. That is, he could not see that she was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

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“It is the dull eventless times that have no duration whatever. A time splashed with interest, wounded with tragedy, crevassed with joy--that's the time that seems so long in the memory...Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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