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Lonesome Dove
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The Book of Disquiet
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""It was an occasion to be happy. But something weighed on me, some inscrutable yearning, an indefinable and perhaps even noble desire. Perhaps it was just taking me a long time to feel alive."

Goddamn, you didn't need to hurt me like so early on man, I wasn't prepared yet."
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A Fortunate Man
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Seneca
“He who is brave is free”
Seneca

Ward Farnsworth
“Renouncing the honors at which the world aims, I desire only to know the truth, and to live as well as I can, and, when I die, to die as well as I can. And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all other men to do the same.”
Ward Farnsworth, The Socratic Method: A Practitioner's Handbook

Cormac McCarthy
“My daddy always told me to just do the best you knew how and tell the truth. He said there was nothin to set a man’s mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were. And if you done somethin wrong just stand up and say you done it and say you’re sorry and get on with it. Don’t haul stuff around with you.”
Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

Jordan B. Peterson
“And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.”
Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

Machado de Assis
“I had no children, I did not transmit to any creature the legacy of our misery.”
Machado de Assis, The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas

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