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London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth

by Patrick Radden Keefe

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My Friends by Fredrik Backman

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The artist was an observer, he couldn’t bear to be observed, the world always gets those mixed up.

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“Are these real friends, people who would look after your cat or drive you home from hospital, or are they just an amorphous mass, happy enough to leave cute messages (lol!) on your wall but completely removed from your everyday life? How can you have three hundred close friends?”
― Elly Griffiths, The House at Sea's End

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“Who, if I cried, would hear me among the angelic orders? And even if one of them suddenly pressed me against his heart, I should fade in the strength of his stronger existence. For beauty's nothing but the beginning of terror we're still just able to bear.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies

tags: angels, beauty, comfort, emotion, fear, loneliness, terror

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“Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love

tags: politics, social-justice

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“G.K. Chesterton: ‘I caught him, with an unseen hook and an invisible line which is long enough to let him wander to the ends of the world, and still to bring him back with a twitch upon the thread.”
― Elly Griffiths, The Janus Stone

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“Because when some incident sheds a favorable light on an old and absent friend, that’s about as good a gift as chance intends to offer.”
― Amor Towles, Rules of Civility

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