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Human Acts

by Han Kang

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La vida instrucciones de uso

by Georges Perec

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Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

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We did not domesticate wheat. It domesticated us. The word ‘domesticate’ comes from the Latin domus, which means ‘house’. Who’s the one living in a house? Not the wheat. It’s the Sapiens.

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Man's Search for Meaning

by Viktor E. Frankl

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“The line between gambling and investing is artificial and thin. The soundest investment has the defining trait of a bet (you losing all of your money in hopes of making a bit more), and the wildest speculation has the salient characteristic of an investment (you might get your money back with interest).”
― Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

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“How does language interact with thought? Does language enable us to think, or does thinking enable us to talk?”
― V.S. Ramachandran, The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human

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“that the largest “negative eugenics” project in human history was not the systemic extermination of Jews in Nazi Germany or Austria in the 1930s. That ghastly distinction falls on India and China, where more than 10 million female children are missing from adulthood because of infanticide, abortion, and neglect of female children. Depraved”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Gene: An Intimate History

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“In God we trust. All others [must] have data”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

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“Whatever that guy is buying, I want to short it.”
― Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

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