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I like to read books, often old, and distill things to a one-line summary.

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Cover of Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Seeking order only leads to pseudo-order.
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Cover of The Gulag Archipelago The Gulag Archipelago Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
There’s a fate worse than death, and it’s the corruption of the soul.
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Cover of In the Heart of the Sea In the Heart of the Sea Nathaniel Philbrick
Intelligence might be a prerequisite to senseless violence.
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Cover of Mutiny on the Bounty Mutiny on the Bounty Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
One must always play the long game.
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Cover of Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage Alfred Lansing
Just don’t die.
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Cover of The Old Man and the Sea The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway
Happiness - is being able to endure for enduring’s sake.
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Cover of The Death of Ivan Ilyich The Death of Ivan Ilyich Leo Tolstoy
Shit happens.
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Cover of Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains Jon Krakauer
Solitude, often in the road less traveled, is nourishment for the soul.
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Cover of Slaughterhouse-Five Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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Cover of Catch-22 Catch-22 Joseph Heller
Insanity is the only rational response to prolonged absurdity.
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Cover of Walden Walden Henry David Thoreau
People become perfectly blanched specimens in their climate controlled houses over time.
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Cover of The Metamorphosis The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Utilitarianism of social contracts are realised at the most inconvenient times.
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Cover of Notes from Underground Notes from Underground Fyodor Dostoevsky
Some of us choose to be vile, because we can.
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Cover of Into the Wild Into the Wild Jon Krakauer
You won’t know what you got, till it’s gone.
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