The Unbearable Lightness of Being
by Milan Kundera
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The World as Will and Representation
by Arthur Schopenhauer
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Nausea
by Jean-Paul Sartre
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The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
by Albert Camus
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
by Friedrich Nietzsche
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The Crying of Lot 49
by Thomas Pynchon
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Steppenwolf
by Hermann Hesse
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The Book of Disquiet
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