"...No: if I convinced myself of something then I certainly existed. But there is a deceiver of supreme power and cunning who is deliberately and constantly deceiving me. In that case I too undoubtedly exist, if he is deceiving me; and let him deceive me as much as he can, he will never bring it about that I am nothing so long as I think that I am something. So after considering everything very thoroughly, I must finally conclude that this proposition, I am, I exist, is necessarily true whenever it is put forward by me or conceived in my mind...Thinking? At last I have discovered it - thought; this alone is inseparable from me. I am, I exist - that is certain. But for how long? For as long as I am thinking. For it could be that were I totally to cease from thinking, I should totally cease to exist...I am a thinking thing."
René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy -
Second Meditation
The NYLS Book Review - Fiction
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Acocella, Joan - Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints: essays - Nonfiction - Read Review
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Bailey, Tom - Cotton Song - Fiction - Read Review
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Banville, John - The Sea - Fiction - Read Review
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Carey, Peter - His Illegal Self - Fiction - Read Review
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Chen, Da - Brothers - Fiction - Read Review
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Choong, Tinling - FireWife - Fiction - Read Review
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David, Iimani - Descendants of Caine- Fiction - Read Review
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Duncan, Hal - Vellum: The Book of All Hours- Fiction - Read Review
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Egan, Jennifer - The Keep - Fiction - Read Review
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Gran, Sara - Dope- Fiction - Read Review
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Kirino, Natsuo - Grotesque- Fiction - Read Review
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Kuhlman, Evan - Wolf Boy - Fiction - Read Review
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Leung, Brian - Lost Men - Fiction - Read Review
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Lightman, Alan - Ghost - Fiction - Read Review
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Min, Katherine - Secondhand World - Fiction - Read Review
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Rushdie, Salman - Shalimar the Clown - Fiction - Read Review
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See, Carolyn - There Will Never Be Another You - Fiction - Read Review
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Spanidou, Irini - Before - Fiction - Read Review
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Wolitzer, Hilma - The Doctor's Daughter - Fiction - Read Review
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