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Talking to the Wolf: The Alexander Dugin Interviews

by Nicholas Rooney

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Street Haunting: A London Adventure

by Virginia Woolf

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There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness: And Other Thoughts on Physics, Philosophy and the World

by Carlo Rovelli

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Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami

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Her mind was as clear as the winter night sky, the Big Dipper and North Star in place, twinkling

Chris’s Quotes

“What is a rebel? A man who says no.”
― Albert Camus

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“I always secretly looked forward to nothing going as planned. That way, I wasn't limited by my imagination. That way, anything can, and always did, happen.”
― Nigel Davis

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“Every time you check your phone in company, what you gain is a hit of stimulation, a neurochemical shot, and what you lose is what a friend, teacher, parent, lover, or co-worker just said, meant, felt.”
― Sherry Turkle, Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age

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“But when a man has had only four hours' sleep he isn't sentimental. He sees things as they are: that is to say, he sees them in the garish light of justice; hideous, witless justice.”
― Albert Camus

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“All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it's up to us, so far as possible, not to join forces with the pestilences. That may sound simple to the point of childishness; I can't judge if it's simple, but I know it's true.”
― Albert Camus

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