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― The Idiot
― The Idiot
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― The Magic Mountain
― The Magic Mountain
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― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
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― Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, 9 Vols.
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