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Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville The Complete Poems by Walt Whitman Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion In Cold Blood by Truman Capote Meditations by Marcus Aurelius The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Demian by Hermann Hesse Coyote's Guide to Connecting with Nature by Jon Young
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Jean-Paul Sartre
“If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre
tags: loneliness, solitude
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Jean-Paul Sartre
“Hell is—other people!”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit
tags: garcin, hell, people
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Baruch Spinoza
“Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.”
― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
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Jean-Paul Sartre
“Life begins on the other side of despair.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre
tags: inspirational
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Ursula K. Le Guin
“What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?”
― Ursula K. LeGuin
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