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The Aeneid

by Virgil

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Being and Nothingness

by Jean-Paul Sartre

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Alec’s Quotes

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: inspirational, life, yourself

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“Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.”
― Allen Ginsberg

tags: be-yourself, self-expression

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“Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: animals, attributed-no-source, friends, humor, vegetarianism

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“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.

[These words are also inscribed upon his grave]”
― Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach

tags: action, change, ideology, philosophy, resistance, struggle

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“Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
― J. D. Salinger

tags: salinger, stories

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Classical (Laissez-Faire) Liberalism — 818 members — last activity May 16, 2026 09:51PM
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This group explores Russian literature with an emphasis on 19th/20th century authors.

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