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Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You

by Marcus Chown

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The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

by Olivia Laing (Goodreads Author)

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The Lost Girls of Autism: The Untold Story of Women on the Spectrum

by Gina Rippon

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“There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there’s only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there’s no reason why you shouldn’t have a fairly good time.”
― Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome and Other Short Fiction

tags: happiness

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“Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had not read; and the serenity for which he labored was shattered as he realized the little time he had in life to read so much, to learn what he had to know.”
― John Williams, Stoner

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“Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping

tags: loneliness

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