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White Noise by Don DeLillo

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This place recharges us spiritually, it prepares us, it’s a gateway or pathway. Look how bright. It’s full of psychic data.”

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“There is not love of life without despair about life.”
― Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays

tags: mortality

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“We had no desire to live in Istanbul, nor in Paris or New York. Let them have their discos and dollars, their skycrapers and supersonics transports. Let them have their radios and their color TV, hey, we have ours, don't we? But we have something they don't have. Heart. We have heart. Look, look how the light of life seeps into my very heart”
― Orhan Pamuk, The New Life

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“Intellectual effort for its own sake, they call eccentricity.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

tags: for-its-own-sake

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“Silence is death, and you, if you talk, you die, and if you remain silent, you die. So, speak out and die.”
― Tahar Djaout

tags: freedom-of-speech, pen, writing

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“Mental acuity of any kind comes from solving problems yourself, not from being told how to solve them.”
― Paul Lockhart, A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form

tags: education, intelligence, problems

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