Man as social animal

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Spinoza, Baruch. Ethica, Ordine Geometrico Desmonstrata [Ethics, Demonstrated in Geometrical Order]. 1677, pt. 4, prop. 35, note.

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Spinoza, Benedict. Ethics, translated by Michael Silverthorne and Matthew J. Kinser. Cambridge University Press, 2018, pt. 4, prop. 35, note.

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Donne, John. "Meditation XVII." Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and severall steps in my Sicknes. London, 1624.

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Donne, John. "Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions." Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Death's Duel. Vintage, 1999, meditation 17.

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Marx, Groucho. Letter to President of Hollywood Club. c. 1949.

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Mann, Thomas. Der Zauberberg [The Magic Mountain]. S. Fischer Verlag, 1924, ch. 2.

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Mann, Thomas. The Magic Mountain. Everyman's Library, 2005, ch. 2.

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Whyte, David. "Friendship." Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment, and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words. Canongate Books, 2020.

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Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. c. 180, bk. 8.

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Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations, edited and translated by Martin Hammond. Penguin Classics, 2015, bk. 8.

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Up in the Air. Directed by Jason Reitman, DreamWorks Pictures/The Montecito Picture Company/Cold Spring Pictures/Rickshaw Productions/Right of Way Films, 2009.

No matter how a man alone ain't got no bloody fucking chance.

Ernest Hemingway

To Have and Have Not

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Hemingway, Ernest. To Have and Have Not. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937, ch. 23.

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The Dark Knight. Directed by Christopher Nolan, Warner Bros. Pictures/Legendary Pictures/Syncopy, 2008.

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Blackstone, William. Commentaries on the Laws of England: Book the First. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1765, introduction, sec. 2.

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Blackstone, William. Commentaries on the Laws of England: Book I Of the Rights of Persons, edited by David Lemmings. Oxford University Press, 2016, introduction, sec. 2.

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Menander. The Brothers in Love. c. 3rd century BC, fragment 508.

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"The Dragon and the Wolf." Game of Thrones, written by George R.R. Martin and David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, directed by Jeremy Podeswa, season 7, episode 7, Television 360 and Startling and Bighead Littlehead, 2017.

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Mill, John Stuart. "Utilitarianism." Fraser's Magazine, 1861, ch. 3.

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Mill, John Stuart. "Utilitarianism." On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 3.

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Sei Shonagon. 枕草子 [The Pillow Book]. c. 1002.

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Sei Shonagon. The Pillow Book, translated by Meredith McKinney. Penguin Classics, 2007.

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Smith, Adam. The Theory of Moral Sentiments. London: Andrew Millar/Edinburgh: Alexander Kincaid and J. Bell, 1759, pt. 1, sect. 1, ch. 1.

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Smith, Adam. The Theory of Moral Sentiments, edited by Ryan Patrick Hanley. Penguin, 2010, pt. 1, sect. 1, ch. 1.

There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences.

Wallace Stegner

All the Little Live Things

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Stegner, Wallace. All the Little Live Things. Penguin Publishing Group, 1991.

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Shields, Carol. Larry's Party. Knopf Canada, 1997, ch. 9.

Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamour of silence.

Rabindranath Tagore

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Tagore, Rabindrath. Stray Birds. The Macmillan Company, 1916, no. 110.

I know things can really get rough when you go it alone. Don’t go thinking you gotta be tough and bleed like a stone.

The Shins

Simple Song

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Mercer, James. "Simple Song." Port of Morrow. Aural Apothecary/Columbia Records, 2012.

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

M.F.K. Fisher

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Fisher, Mary Frances Kennedy. An Alphabet for Gourmets. The Viking Press, 1949.