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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

by John Carreyrou

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The Red and the Green

by Iris Murdoch

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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

by Azar Nafisi

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read in February 2012

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Fear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard

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Only lower natures forget themselves and become something new. Thus the butterfly has altogether forgotten that it was a caterpillar, perhaps it can so completely forget in turn that it was a butterfly that it can become a fish. Deeper ...more

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“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
― St. Augustine

tags: allegory, books, broad-mindedness, classic, education, imagery, travel, world

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