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The Book of Two Ways

by Jodi Picoult (Goodreads Author)

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Sep 13, 2021 03:07PM

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Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton

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“I think he’s unkind because it’s easier to be angry than frightened,”

“And anyway, when was a journal ever honest? “It either tells a lot of truths to cover a single lie,” he said, “or a lot of lies to cover a single truth.”
― Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

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“I have become solitary,” wrote the eighteenth-century French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, “because to me the most desolate solitude seems preferable to the society of wicked men which is nourished only in betrayals and hatred.”
― Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

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“Beware the barrenness of a busy life”
― Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

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“One becomes free, Socrates seems to have taught, not by fulfilling all desires but by eliminating desire.”
― Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

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“Not till we have lost the world,” wrote Thoreau, “do we begin to find ourselves.”
― Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

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