• “We must all still work these things out for ourselves.”

- Jean-Paul Sartre

• "People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that's bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they're afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it. That's what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you're letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your ri...

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• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
• A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
• A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe
• A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
• A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
• Armageddon In Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut
• As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
• Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
• Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
• Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
• Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
• Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

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