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Project Hail Mary

by Andy Weir (Goodreads Author)

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Anna Karenina

by Leo Tolstoy

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If I Had Your Face

by Frances Cha (Goodreads Author)

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Yumdo’s Quotes

“what does having lived mean once you are no longer alive?”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

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“But I had only known the absurd, and I think that made me profoundly different from them”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

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“I thought it was unfair, and then I understood that, alone and terrified, anger was my only weapon against the horror”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

tags: distopian, science-fiction

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“Because I want to know! Sometimes, you can use what you know, but that's not what counts most. I want to know everything there is to know. Not because it's any use, but for the pleasure of knowing, and now I demand that you teach me everything you know, even if I will never be able to use it.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

tags: education, knowledge, learning, right-to-education, right-to-information

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“Perhaps you never have time when are you alive? You only acquire it by watching it go by in others.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

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