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Michael Rupert

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Michael’s Notes & Highlights

Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

1 highlight

Better to be a first-class matchbox than a second-class match.

Candide

by Voltaire

4 highlights
The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Michael’s Quotes

“I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: humanity, individuals, love, mankind

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“As I was hiking down the mountain woth my pack I turned and I knelt on the trail and said "Thank you, Shack". The I added "Blah" with a little grin, because I knew that shack and that mountain would know what that meant, and turned and went on down the trail back to this world.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

tags: dharma-bums

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“I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: goals-in-life, purpose-of-life

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