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Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

by Lea Ypi

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Educated by Tara Westover

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I had been educated in the rhythms of the mountain, rhythms in which change was never fundamental, only cyclical. The same sun appeared each morning,

“I became aware of a voice inside my head. [...] It was only later that I realized that this voice was my own thinking, that this moment of anguish was my first inkling that I was a ceaseless monologue trapped within myself.”
― Yann Martel

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