Talie

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Fuente Ovejuna

by Lope de Vega

bookshelves: classics, español, plays, currently-reading

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Un beso de amigo

by Juan Madrid

bookshelves: crime, español, books-i-own, currently-reading

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Nov 26, 2025 11:23PM

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The Ethics of Ambiguity

by Simone de Beauvoir

bookshelves: currently-reading, language-literary, non-fiction, psychology-philosophy, translations

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“He was obsessed with the fear of making a mistake. Sometimes he was convinced it was impossible to do anything else, and that if anyone got anything right it was purely by chance.”
― Ismail Kadare, The Palace of Dreams

tags: fear, luck

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“Every democracy was a kind of anarchy in slow motion: any statute, any constitution could be changed, given time; any social contract, written or unwritten, could be dishonoured.”
― Greg Egan, Distress

tags: democracy

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“Presently the recruiting sergeant was not able to use the children of this regime even as cannon fodder: the Boer War and the First World War, did perhaps as much as any other factor to promote better housing there.”
― Lewis Mumford, The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects

tags: britain, health, pollution

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“The appearance of fine-tuning in a scientific theory is like a cry of distress from nature, complaining that something needs to be better explained.”
― Steven Weinberg, To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science

tags: scientific-theory

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