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To Clutch a Razor (Curse Bearer, #2)

by Veronica Roth (Goodreads Author)

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Feb 12, 2026 05:15PM

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How Do You Live?

by Genzaburo Yoshino

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Jan 02, 2026 09:16PM

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Death of a Salesman

by Arthur Miller

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Jul 31, 2025 01:39PM

“If excitement is a mechanism our Creator uses for His own amusement, love is something that belongs to us alone and enables us to flee the Creator. Love is our freedom. Love lies beyond "Es Muss sein!”
― Milan Kundera

tags: creator, es-muss-sein, excitement, freedom, god, love, milan-kundera, unbearable-lightness-of-being

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“Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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“You are a little soul carrying around a corpse”
― Epictetus

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“Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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“Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us. We read its message much as gypsies read the images made by coffee grounds at the bottom of a cup.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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