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Adam is Currently Reading

Adam Holmes is currently reading

The Haunting of Hill House

by Shirley Jackson

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Apr 12, 2026 09:01PM

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マンホール 3 (Manhole, #3)

by Tetsuya Tsutsui

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Mar 12, 2018 02:55AM

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Perchance to Dream: Selected Stories

by Charles Beaumont

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Apr 24, 2017 03:44AM

Adam’s Quotes

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source, happiness, meaning-of-life

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“What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.”
― Werner Herzog

tags: dreams, monsters, ocean, sleep

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“Look into the eyes of a chicken and you will see real stupidity. It is a kind of bottomless stupidity, a fiendish stupidity. They are the most horrifying, cannibalistic and nightmarish creatures in the world.”
― Werner Herzog

tags: food-for-thought

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“Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.”
― Thomas Hardy, The Personal Notebooks Of Thomas Hardy

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“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
― Epicurus

tags: atheism, religion

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