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The Collection

by Agatha Christie

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Iron Gold (Red Rising Saga, #4)

by Pierce Brown (Goodreads Author)

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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson

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The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience.

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“It takes curiosity to find your call to adventure, it takes courage to venture into the unknown, and it takes imagination to create your path.”
― Sean Patrick, Nikola Tesla: Imagination and the Man That Invented the 20th Century

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“Ever since the Cognitive Revolution, there hasn’t been a single natural way of life for Sapiens. There are only cultural choices, from among a bewildering palette of possibilities.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

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“Most of the infectious diseases that have plagued agricultural and industrial societies (such as smallpox, measles and tuberculosis) originated in domesticated animals and were transferred to humans only after the Agricultural Revolution.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

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“Today, when we finally realise that the keys to happiness are in the hands of our biochemical system, we can stop wasting our time on politics and social reforms, putsches and ideologies, and focus instead on the only thing that can make us truly happy: manipulating our biochemistry.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

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“The trick was learning to live without the grief and without the guilt. The trick was to create a life worth living, a life no longer conscious of death.”
― Vincent Zandri, The Innocent

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