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"Big fan of an unhinged utilitarian thought experiment, however. I’m busy that day." Nov 24, 2024 07:57PM

 
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"Kind of amazing how this book hits not only every dystopian-rise-of-tyranny-in-liberal-democracy-gasp cliché as well as so many literary ones. I stopped reading when the protagonist’s angst leads her to such extremes as to… (spoiler?) inhale her cigarette deeply while staring off into nothing… something something she hadn’t smoked in years… no thanks." Apr 18, 2024 03:05PM

 
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Ivy Beaver Ivy Beaver said: " I wanted to like this book so bad. And if anyone reads this review that believes this book is genius and hates me please know I'm not happy about this either. I wanted to like it because of my the knowledge of the fact that when the Soviet Union dema ...more "

 
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Victor Hugo
“If I speak, I am condemned.
If I stay silent, I am damned!”
victor hugos, Les Misérables

Kay Redfield Jamison
“I decided early in graduate school that I needed to do something about my moods. It quickly came down to a choice between seeing a psychiatrist or buying a horse. Since almost everyone I knew was seeing a psychiatrist, and since I had an absolute belief that I should be able to handle my own problems, I naturally bought a horse.”
Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

Fyodor Dostoevsky
“…we here are unbelievers only out of carelessness, because we don’t have time: first, we’re too beset with business, and second, God gave us too little time, he only allotted twenty-four hours to a day, so that there isn’t even time enough to sleep, let alone repent.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

Søren Kierkegaard
“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
Søren Kierkegaard

Simone de Beauvoir
“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

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