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The Givenness of Things: Essays by Marilynne Robinson

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However sound our credentials seem, we have it on good authority that the prostitutes and sinners might well enter heaven before us.

“The aim of the Internet and its associated technologies was to “liberate” humanity from the tasks—making things, learning things, remembering things—that had previously given meaning to life and thus had constituted life. Now it seemed as if the only task that meant anything was search-engine optimization.”
― Jonathan Franzen, Purity

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“To think what the Stasi went through to spy on us. Even they couldn’t dream of a world in which citizens voluntarily carried tracking devices, conducted self-surveillance and reported on themselves, morning, noon and night.”
― Adam Johnson

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