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The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West

by Alexander C. Karp (Goodreads Author)

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Nur Jahan: Empress of Mughal India

by Ellison Banks Findly

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"Despite being a biography, there is little detail about Nur Jahan herself. Apart from her being 'powerful' and 'charming' a little is to be known about her in detail yet.
Although I am enjoying the intrigues of the Mughal court, it is not why I picked up the book." — Aug 27, 2022 03:13AM

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Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

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Mona’s Notes & Highlights

Demian by Hermann Hesse

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every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way and never again.

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Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

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13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl

by Mona Awad

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Mona’s Quotes

“Hell exists from within.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy:

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“I distrust all systematisers and avoid them. The will to a system is a lack of integrity.”
― Sue Prideaux, I Am Dynamite!: A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Whoever fights with monsters should see to it that he does not become one himself. And when you stare for a long time into an abyss, the abyss stares back into you.”
― Sue Prideaux, I Am Dynamite!: A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche

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“I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together, in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

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“Great art demands intellects that stand on a level with the most individual personalities of contemporary thought, in exceptionality, in independence, in defiance and in aristocratic self-supremacy.”
― Sue Prideaux, I Am Dynamite!: A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche

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