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Books they recommend that someone else wrote.
“Well, I mean, I love Walden. People say whatever they say, but I love Thoreau, and more of his notebooks do not just Walden. I spent about seven years immersed in Mary Shelley's world.”
Why: She loves Thoreau's work and his notebooks.
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
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“she's probably my one of my three favorite philosophers but also beautiful novelist she used the word unselfing in a kind of almost as an aside in she has a book called existentialist and mystics…”
Why: She considers the author one of her favorite philosophers and appreciates the book's insights.
Existentialists and Mystics by Iris Murdoch
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