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She's Come Undone (Mass Market Paperback) by Wally Lamb bookshelves: currently-reading, fiction-lit, further-exploration |
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The Night Watch (Paperback) by Sarah Waters bookshelves: further-exploration |
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read in June, 2007
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"I read this book this last summer, and it has yet to escape my mind. I swear it haunts me! I have a need to re-read it again. I think I could have read it again the moment I got done with it.
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The Night Watch (Paperback) by Sarah Waters bookshelves: further-exploration |
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read in June, 2007
samantha said:
"I read this book this last summer, and it has yet to escape my mind. I swear it haunts me! I have a need to re-read it again. I think I could have read it again the moment I got done with it.
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She's Come Undone (Mass Market Paperback) by Wally Lamb bookshelves: currently-reading, fiction-lit, further-exploration |
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White Teeth (School & Library Binding) by Zadie Smith bookshelves: fiction-lit |
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The End of History and the Last Man (Paperback) by Francis Fukuyama bookshelves: philosophy |
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Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida (Paperback) by Giovanna Borradori bookshelves: philosophy |
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Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback) by Michel Foucault bookshelves: to-read, wishlist |
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"...if you are not like everybody else, then you are abnormal, if you are abnormal , then you are sick. These three categories, not being like everybody else, not being normal and being sick are in fact very different but have been reduced to the same thing " — Michel Foucault | |
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"Whatever variety evolution brings forth... Every new dimension of world-response...means another modality for God's trying out his hidden essence and discovering himself through the surprises of world-adventure...the heightening pitch and passion of life that go with the twin rise of perception and motility in animals. The ever more sharpened keenness of appetite and fear, pleasure and pain, triumph and anguish, love and even cruelty - their very edge is the deity's gain. Their countless, yet never blunted incidence - hence the necessity of death and new birth - supplies the tempered essence from which the Godhead reconstitutes itself. All this, evolution provides in the mere lavishness of its play and sternness of its spur. Its creatures, by merely fulfilling themselves in pursuit of their lives, vindicate the divine venture. Even their suffering deepens the fullness of the symphony. Thus, this side of good and evil, God cannot lose in the great evolutionary game. " — Hans Jonas | |
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Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America - A Memoir (Paperback) by Elizabeth Wurtzel bookshelves: to-read, wishlist |
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samantha's favorite quotes
"A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading."
— William Styron
— William Styron
"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star."
— Friedrich Nietzsche
— Friedrich Nietzsche
"...all human wisdom was contained in these two words: wait and hope"
— Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo (Tor Classics))
— Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo (Tor Classics))
"'But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: 'we're all mad here."
— Lewis Carroll
'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: 'we're all mad here."
— Lewis Carroll
"if what proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then i will never know happiness. for i am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation."
— Anais Nin
— Anais Nin
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