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Galápagos

by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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The God of Small Things

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Men of the Bible: A One Year Devotional Study of Men in Scripture

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“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
― Plato

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“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

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“It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

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“I would rather be ashes than dust!
I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The function of man is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time.”
― Jack London

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“Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.”
― Anton Chekhov

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