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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace How to Be Alone by Jonathan Franzen The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson Pastoralia by George Saunders The Philosopher's Pupil by Iris Murdoch Selected Poems by Theodore Roethke Carried Away by Alice Munro Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by Z.Z. Packer Collected Essays by James Baldwin The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake Nobody Knows My Name by James Baldwin
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“Therefore the sage puts his own person last, and yet it is found in the foremost place; he treats his person as if it were foreign to him, and yet that person is preserved.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“he who asserts his own views is not distinguished;”
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“Therefore, what has a (positive) existence serves for profitable adaptation, and what has not that for (actual) usefulness.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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