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Nausea

by Jean-Paul Sartre

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Nov 15, 2025 06:33AM

Aaya’s Notes & Highlights

The Divine Farce by Michael S.A. Graziano

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Any finite amount of time implied

A Short Stay in Hell

by Steven L. Peck

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Aaya’s Quotes

“We have your daughter.”

But I have learned to be good.”
― Jessamine Chan, The School for Good Mothers

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“We learn more from people who challenge our thought process than those who affirm our conclusions. Strong leaders engage their critics and make themselves stronger. Weak leaders silence their critics and make themselves weaker. This reaction isn’t limited to people in power. Although we might be on board with the principle, in practice we often miss out on the value of a challenge network.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

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“He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.”
― George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant

tags: hypocrisy, man, 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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“In a Society in which there is no law, and in theory no compulsion, the only arbiter of behaviour is public opinion. But public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law. When human beings are governed by ‘thou shalt not’, the individual can practise a certain amount of eccentricity: when they are supposedly governed by ‘love’ or ‘reason’, he is under continuous pressure to make him behave and think in exactly the same way as everyone else.”
― George Orwell, Politics vs Literature

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