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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

by David Graeber

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My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)

by Elena Ferrante

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Shift (Silo, #2)

by Hugh Howey (Goodreads Author)

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“Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore it if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays

tags: individualism, inspirational-life

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“What is the hardest task in the world? To think.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“All of us know, whether or not we are able to admit it, that mirrors can only lie, that death by drowning is all that awaits one there. It is for this reason that love is so desperately sought and so cunningly avoided. Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

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