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Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt 1984 by George Orwell Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche Night by Elie Wiesel Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert Camus Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt
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Slavoj Žižek
“I despise the kind of book which tells you how to live, how to make yourself happy! Philosophers have no good news for you at this level! I believe the first duty of philosophy is making you understand what deep shit you are in!”
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