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by R.F. Kuang (Goodreads Author)

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The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

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‘History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.’

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Common Sense

by Thomas Paine

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“It doesn’t matter how many times we love and lose, or how old we are, the pain from heartbreak is still as sharp as ever. We’re all excited, infatuated fifteen-year-olds trapped in ageing bodies.”
― Karen Charlton, Murder in Park Lane

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“The desire to pray has nothing to do with faith. It emanates from a special despondency, and lasts as long, even while the gods and their very memory may vanish away forever.”
― Emil M. Cioran, The Trouble with Being Born

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“But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

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“In short, monarchy and succession have laid (not this or that kingdom only) but the world in blood and ashes. 'Tis a form of government which the word of God bears testimony against, and blood will attend it.”
― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

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