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Upgrade by Blake Crouch

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We lived in a veritable surveillance state, engaged with screens more than with our loved ones, and the algorithms knew us better than we knew ourselves.

Floating Staircase

by Ronald Malfi

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The Glass Hotel

by Emily St. John Mandel

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“...we are longtime outcasts, flying through the emptiness of time in a straight line.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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“Each tradition grows more venerable the farther its origin lies in the past, the more it is forgotten; the respect paid to the tradition accumulates from generation to generation; finally the origin becomes sacred and awakens awe.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Aphorisms on Love and Hate

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“As if intoxicated, I then enjoyed her presence in the things I saw, and, desiring her in them, with the sight of them I was sated.”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

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“Unbendingness can also be monomania, it can ca be tyranny, and also it can be brittle, whereas what is flexible can also be humane, and strong enough to last.”
― Salmon Rushdie

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“After all, the appeal to stop being yourself, even for a little while, is very great. To escape the cognitive mode of experience, to transcend the accident of one's moment of being.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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