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The Player of Games (Culture, #2)

by Iain M. Banks

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Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity

by Peter Attia (Goodreads Author)

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Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

by Cal Newport

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“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

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“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

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“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

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