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“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
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“We need the love of others to love ourselves, but in order to be nurtured by the love of others, we need to love ourselves sufficiently to accept that love.”
― The Existentialist's Survival Guide: How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age
― The Existentialist's Survival Guide: How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age

“I think our time is up. I know. Hold my hand. Hold your hand? Yes. I want you to. All right. Why? Because that’s what people do when they’re waiting for the end of something.”
― Stella Maris
― Stella Maris

“Love is a feeling validated by series of kind actions. When the initial euphoria of love wanes, the series of kind actions validates the love.”
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“Since all contemporary action leads to murder, direct or indirect, we cannot act until we know whether, and why, we have the right to kill.”
― The Rebel
― The Rebel

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A group for the amazing work of David Foster Wallace, now deceased. RIP 1962-2008 Feel free to add his books to the bookshelf for the group.

For all those planning to read Infinite Jest this summer starting June 21. Support, encouragement and gentle pushes welcome.

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