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Footnotes in Gaza

by Joe Sacco

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Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

by Sabine Hossenfelder

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The Stone Reader: Modern Philosophy in 133 Arguments

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Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton

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I blame my high expectations for love on two things: the first is that I am the child of parents who are almost embarrassingly infatuated with each other; the second is the films I watched in my formative years.

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Tanja’s Quotes

“There is a German word, Sehnsucht, which has no English equivalent; it means 'the longing for something'. It has Romantic and mystical connotations; C.S. Lewis defined it as the 'inconsolable longing' in the human heart for 'we know not what'. It seems rather German to be able to specify the unspecifiable. The longing for something - or, in our case, for someone.”
― Julian Barnes, Levels of Life

tags: loneliness, longing, sehnsucht

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“There are two essential kinds of loneliness: that of not having found someone to love, and that of having been deprived of the one you did love. The first kind is worse. Nothing can compare to the loneliness of the soul in adolescence.”
― Julian Barnes, Levels of Life

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“I watched a lot of YouTube videos of cute geeky girls playing '80s cover tunes on ukuleles. Technically, this wasn't part of my research, but I had a serious cute-geeky-girls-playing-ukuleles fetish that I can neither explain nor defend.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

tags: fetish, humor, lust

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