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On Love

by Alain de Botton (Goodreads Author)

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Your Worry Makes Sense: Anxiety and Burnout are Logical (and You Can Overcome Them)

by Martin Brunet

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Guy de Maupassant: The Complete Novels and Short Stories + A Biography of the Author (The Greatest Writers of All Time)

by Guy de Maupassant

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“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: corruption, individuality, peer-pressure, youth

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“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy

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“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage

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“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

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