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Animal Farm

by George Orwell

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"We are animals...the metaphor is simple...related to how we are used. And thereby use ourselves.
These are old wake up calls.never listened to." — Jul 02, 2014 04:17AM

Jul 02, 2014 04:10AM

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All That I Am

by Anna Funder

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"Good book.Gave it up." — May 31, 2021 01:00AM

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The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 4: 1927-1931

by Anaïs Nin

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“The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!”
― Fernando Pessoa

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“I'm astounded whenever I finish something. Astounded and distressed. My perfectionist instinct should inhibit me from finishing: it should inhibit me from even beginning. But I get distracted and start doing something. What I achieve is not the product of an act of my will but of my will's surrender. I begin because I don't have the strength to think; I finish because I don't have the courage to quit. This book is my cowardice.”
― Fernando Pessoa

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“No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it”
― Fernando Pessoa

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“But I am not perfect in my way of putting things
Because I lack the divine simplicity
Of being only what I appear to be.”
― Fernando Pessoa, Poems of Fernando Pessoa

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“I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

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