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Shadow and Bone (Shadow and Bone, #1)

by Leigh Bardugo (Goodreads Author)

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Snow Falling on Cedars

by David Guterson (Goodreads Author)

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David’s Quotes

“If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Temple

tags: cthulu, madness

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“Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: freedom, life-experience, self-determination

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“Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance and shimmy, and you've got an audience!”
― Diogenes Laërtius

tags: philosophy, virtue

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“So it is: we are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not Ill-supplied but wasteful of it.”
― Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It

tags: life, philosophy, time, wasteful

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“The philosopher Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king. Said Aristippus, 'If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.'

Said Diogenes, 'Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king".”
― Anthony de Mello

tags: aristippus, diogenes, humor, money, philosophy, simplicity, voluntary

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