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The Invisible Life of Addie Larue

by V.E. Schwab

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Visible City

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“In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.”
― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

tags: assurance, belief, certainty, degrees, doubt, evidence, facts, proportion, reason, reasoning, science, skepticism, wisdom

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“He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

tags: circe, greek-mythology, intimacy, love, odysseus, scars, vulnerability

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“But of course I could not die. I would live on, through each scalding moment to the next. This is the grief that makes our kind choose to be stones and trees rather than flesh.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

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“Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.”
― David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature

tags: errors, philosophy, religion

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“But gods are born of ichor and nectar, their excellences already bursting from their fingertips. So they find their fame by proving what they can mar: destroying cities, starting wars, breeding plagues and monsters. All that smoke and savor rising so delicately from our altars. It leaves only ash behind.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

tags: circe, deities, destruction, greek-mythology, immortality, mythology

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