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The Birds and Other Stories

by Daphne du Maurier

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English Romantic Poetry

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Fifty-Two Stories

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The Birds: and Other Stories by Daphne du Maurier

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“The self. What is the self? Everything you are, without others, without friends or strangers or lovers or children or streets to walk or food to eat or mirrors in which to see yourself. But are you anyone without others?”
― Don DeLillo, Zero K

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“We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. We don't know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is.”
― Stanisław Lem, Solaris

tags: humanity, morality, world

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“There is no God and we are his prophets.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

tags: blasphemy, paraphrased, religion

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“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
― Pablo Picasso

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“It's the things we forget about that tell us who we are.”
― Don DeLillo, Zero K

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