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Rumi's Love Poems: Selected poems on longing, devotion, and the Beloved. (Rumi's poetry)

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Rumi's Healing Poems: Selected poems on grief, patience, renewal, and inner peace. (Rumi's poetry)

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The Land in Winter: A Novel

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Book cover for The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions

The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions by Peter Brannen

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trilobites all but serve as the mascot of the Paleozoic era,* much as dinosaurs do for the Mesozoic, and mammals do for the Cenozoic. The

War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy

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Travels with My Aunt

by Graham Greene

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“A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

tags: despair, existentialism, future, hopelessness

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“The Empire Never Ended”
― Philip K. Dick

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“Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept

tags: despair, life

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“To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.”
― Joyce Cary, The Horse's Mouth

tags: a-new-world, forgetting, forgiveness, genius, gulley-jimson, heart-beats, truth

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“The truth is that life is hard and dangerous; that he who seeks his own happiness does not find it; that he who is weak must suffer; that he who demands love will be disappointed; that he who is greedy will not be fed; that he who seeks peace will find strife; that truth is only for the brave; that joy is only for him who does not fear to be alone; that life is only for the one who is not afraid to die.”
― Joyce Cary

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