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Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin, and the Battle Between Science and Religion

by Michael Taylor

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The Sparsholt Affair

by Alan Hollinghurst

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Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality

by David Edmonds (Goodreads Author)

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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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“It is curious that while good people go to great lengths to spare their children from suffering, few of them seem to notice that the one (and only) guaranteed way to prevent all the suffering of their children is not to bring those children into existence in the first place.”
― David Benatar , Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence

tags: antinatalism, childfree

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“There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro

tags: inspirational, missed-chances

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“As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened”
― Kazuo Ishiguro

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“having a child, I thought, was something you should actively want, crave, even. It was not a venture for the ambivalent or passionless.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

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