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The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves

by Matt Ridley

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The Complete Invincible Library, Volume 1

by Robert Kirkman

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“Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. I tilted my head back. The stars looked like they were close together, when really they were millions of miles apart. In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

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“I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.”
― Peter Ustinov

tags: culture, hell, humor, humour, stereotypes

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“Nothing burns like the cold. But only for a while. Then it gets inside you and starts to fill you up, and after a while you don't have the strength to fight it.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

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“To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.”
― Robert Graves

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“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
― Oscar Wilde

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