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Ardor

by Roberto Calasso

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Sea of Poppies (Ibis Trilogy, #1)

by Amitav Ghosh

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A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains

by Max Solomon Bennett

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“What you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

tags: memory, nostalgia

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“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: goals-in-life, purpose-of-life

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“It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

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“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.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

tags: absurdism

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“Every person of intelligence should be able to use his mother tongue correctly. It only requires a little pains, a little care, a little study to enable one to do so, and the recompense is great.”
― Joseph Devlin, How to Speak and Write Correctly

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