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Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain

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Whatever by Michel Houellebecq Won Prix Goncourt in 2010 for The Map and the Territory

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The novel form is not conceived for depicting indifference or nothingness; a flatter, more terse and dreary discourse would need to be invented.

Anna Karenina

by Leo Tolstoy

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The Fall

by Albert Camus

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Chitharanjan’s Quotes

“The Untouchables, in modern times, had won the useless right of being touched by the high caste, but they remained the poorest in the city.”
― Manu Joseph, Serious Men

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“Reason is the slave of passion,”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

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“In places without clocks, time is measured by actions rather than action being measured by time.”
― David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

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“It is in our relations with other people that we gain a sense of ourselves; it's that, pretty much, that makes relations with other people unbearable.”
― Michel Houellebecq, Platform

tags: identity, people, relationships

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“Not having anything around to read is dangerous: you have to content yourself with life itself, and that can lead you to take risks.”
― Michel Houellebecq, Platform

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