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Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life by Lulu Miller

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Agassiz explained that the best way to get to God was with a scalpel. To split the skin and look inside. That was where you would discover the “true relations” of the animals. In their bones, their gristle, their guts. That was where the ...more

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (Vintage International)

by Haruki Murakami

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“Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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“The "pleasure" of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of consciousness. And so are the kind of social gatherings, held for no other purpose than the expression of hysterical chaos, where the guests wander around in an alcoholic stupor, prattling noisily and senselessly, and enjoying the illusion of a universe where one is not burdened with purpose, logic, reality or awareness.”
― Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism

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