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Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov and Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being might
“It’s not ‘natural’ to speak well, eloquently, in an interesting articulate way. People living in groups, families, communes say little—have few verbal means. Eloquence—thinking in words—is a byproduct of solitude, deracination, a heightened painful individuality.”
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“If you are never alone you cannot know yourself. And if you do not know yourself, you will begin to fear the void.”
― Manuscript Found in Accra
― Manuscript Found in Accra
“Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.”
― Candide
― Candide
“The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.”
― Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research
― Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research
“People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line.”
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Tech-history and future
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Books about tech and how we got here combined with future looking books about where we might be going
ATXSciRead--Austin's Science + Nature Book Club
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The Austin Texas Science Writers, known as ATXSciWri, invites lovers of science and nature writing to join the newest BookPeople book club, ATXSciRead ...more
Quake books I wish someone had recommend to me
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A "Quake book" is something I stole from Tyler Cowen. Basically, it's any book that after reading your life can no longer be the same. Something funda ...more
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Recommend books, see what other people are reading, start a discussion, what have you. N.B. This group is not actively moderated and doesn't have any ...more
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