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The Player of Games (Culture, #2)

by Iain M. Banks

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Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity

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Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

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“The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

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“The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know everything you're still seventeen.”
― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

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“Shall we take these candles with us and sit for a while on the piazza, or do you want to go to bed and nurse that tooth?”

Nurse that tooth.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

tags: humor

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“Books became my closest confidants, finely ground lenses providing new views of the world.”
― Paul Kalanithi

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“The idea of God was invented in the small hours of history by a scam who had genius; it somehow reeks too much of humanity, that idea, to make its azure origin plausible...”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Despair

tags: agnosticism, atheism, god

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