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Don Quixote

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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The Greatest Gothic Classics of All Time: 60+ Books in One Volume: Frankenstein, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Phantom Ship, The Birth Mark, The Headless Horseman…

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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

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“Basically, God was way too needy. This kind of attitude is all over the Bible: God always being mad at his creations and doling out disproportional punishment. It’s certainly not a fair fight, pitting humans against omnipotence.”
― H. Jon Benjamin, Failure Is an Option: An Attempted Memoir

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“The Cartesian Frenchman in me didn’t take long to catch hold of himself and attribute those accidents to the only reasonable divinity—that is, chance.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

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“I’ve lost that lucidity to which my friends used to enjoy paying respects. I say “my friends,” moreover, as a convention. I have no more friends;”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

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“So, monotheism explains order, but is mystified by evil. Dualism explains evil, but is puzzled by order. There is one logical way of solving the riddle: to argue that there is a single omnipotent God who created the entire universe – and He’s evil.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

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“he said. “I don’t know anything about the post!” “Well, sir . . . what did you used to do?” Rob. Trick. Forge. Embezzle.”
― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal

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