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Frankenstein

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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Oct 17, 2026 11:30PM

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Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives

by David Eagleman (Goodreads Author)

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Word Perfect: Etymological Entertainment For Every Day of the Year

by Susie Dent

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Zavier’s Quotes

“We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

tags: zoology

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“If I didn't try to assume responsibility for my own existence, it would seem utterly absurd to go on existing.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, The Age of Reason

tags: existentialism, freedom, french-literature, jean-paul-sartre, philosophy, the-age-of-reason, the-roads-to-freedom

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“I've lived the life of a man without teeth, he thought about it. A life of a man without teeth. I've never bitten, I've been waiting, keeping myself for later - and now I've just ascertained that I don't have teeth anymore.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, The Age of Reason

tags: existentialism, life, regret

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“The mind of the man and the mind of the woman is the same, but this business of living makes women use their minds in ways that men don't even have to think about.”
― Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment

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“I'm not obstinate, I'm highly strung: I don't know how to let myself go. I must always think of what is happening to me - it's a form of self-protection.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, The Age of Reason

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