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The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

I Have Some Questions For You by Rebecca Makkai

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The Shadow of What Was Lost (The Licanius Trilogy, #1)

by James Islington (Goodreads Author)

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Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

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A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome

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“Words are loaded pistols.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

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“Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, — all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked, — who is good? not that men are ignorant, — what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.”
― W. E. B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk

tags: humanity, ignorance, knowledge, poverty, truth, wickedness

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“It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness

tags: philosophy

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“...when the exhaustive exegesis of God's Word doesn't create people transformed into the image of Jesus, we have missed the forest for the trees.”
― Jen Hatmaker, 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess

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“What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

tags: demons, happiness, judgement, kronofobi, life, reincarnation, sadness

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