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The Fire Next Time

by James Baldwin

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The Naturalist (The Naturalist, #1) by Andrew Mayne

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A scientist is someone trying to see order in chaos. Sometimes it simply can’t be done, as science tells us via quantum mechanics and chaos theory. A thing can be one way or the other without any means to predict why it is so. I’m hiking up ...more

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“Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.”
― Kingsley Amis

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“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain

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“My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

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“In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.”
― André Maurois

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“Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.”
― Aldous Huxley

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