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Night

by Elie Wiesel

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Being and Nothingness

by Jean-Paul Sartre

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Alec’s Quotes

“Love is giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it.”
― Jacques Lacan

tags: lovers

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“Let them look up in the sky then...! if they must be so blind, that cannot see the truth in broad daylight, but must have the whole world in darkness to see the conceit of the stars...”
― William Gaddis, A Frolic of His Own

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“As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or about any human being, that we were all machines, doomed to collide and collide and collide.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

tags: absurdism, absurdist-fiction

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“It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.”
― Karl Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy

tags: human-condition

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“To be radical is to grasp things by the root.”
― Karl Marx, Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right

tags: radical

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"Interested in history - then you have found the right group". The History Book Club is the largest history and nonfiction group on Goodread ...more

Reading the Classics — 4048 members — last activity May 10, 2025 07:28AM
This is a group for people who want to read the classics and discuss them as a group. Each month we will choose as a group a book to read. Everyone is ...more

Political Philosophy and Ethics — 6233 members — last activity 24 minutes ago
Study and discussion of the important questions of ethical and political philosophy from Confucius and Socrates to the present. Rules (see also the ...more

Classical (Laissez-Faire) Liberalism — 810 members — last activity Aug 24, 2025 10:15AM
Including within it neo-liberalism, libertarianism, objectivism, anarcho-capitalism, minarchism, and American conservatism, this classical or "market" ...more

Dostoyevsky's Lair: Russian Literature — 436 members — last activity Apr 01, 2023 02:23PM
This group explores Russian literature with an emphasis on 19th/20th century authors.

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