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The City and Its Uncertain Walls

by Haruki Murakami

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Moscow X

by David McCloskey

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Cuddy

by Benjamin Myers (Goodreads Author)

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“But she’d been feeling lonely. And though she’d studied enough existential philosophy to believe loneliness was a fundamental part of being a human in an essentially meaningless universe, it was good to see him.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

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“Nora had a familiar sense of grief. Only the sertraline stopped her crying. 'Oh God.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

tags: death-of-a-loved-one, grief-and-loss

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“Contact collapse! That sounded pretty, bad didn't it, and also like the thing that was happening to the honeybees?”
― Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This

tags: internet, social-media, twitter

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“It is not that there are the starry heavens above and the moral law within, as Kant would have it; rather, the true basis of your virtuous existence is the fact that the starry heavens are within you, and you are within them.”
― Roy Bhaskar, The Philosophy of MetaReality: Creativity, Love and Freedom (Classical Texts in Critical Realism

tags: philosophy-of-life

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“Pressure makes us, though. You start off as coal and the pressure makes you a diamond.’ She didn’t correct his knowledge of diamonds. She didn’t tell him that while coal and diamonds are both carbon, coal is too impure to be able, under whatever pressure, to become a diamond. According to science, you start off as coal and you end up as coal. Maybe that was the real-life lesson”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

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