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Nausea

by Jean-Paul Sartre

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Nov 15, 2025 06:33AM

Aaya’s Notes & Highlights

A Short Stay in Hell by Steven L. Peck

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Hell is for your edification and wisdom. Punishment? Yes. But not forever.”

The Divine Farce

by Michael S.A. Graziano

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Aaya’s Quotes

“When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

tags: memory, remembrance, the-past

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“When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys.”
― George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant

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“Sorting something that you will never search is a complete waste; searching something you never sorted is merely inefficient.”
― Brian Christian, Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

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“We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom.
We lived in the gaps between the stories.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

tags: freedom, stories

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“Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

tags: education

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