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  1. Rick Steves _ Travel as a Political Act

    As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity.
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  2. Jon Krakauer _ Into the Wild

    The revelation that he was merely human, and frightfully so, was beyond my power to forgive.
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  3. Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books

    Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person in society but as the deep self, our ultimate inwardness.
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  4. David Gemmell _ The King Beyond the Gate

    All things in the world are created for Man, yet all have two purposes. The waters run that we might drink of them, but they are also symbols of the futility of Man. They reflect our lives in rushing beauty, birthed in the purity of the mountains. As babes they babble and run, gushing and growing as they mature into strong young rivers. Then they widen and slow until at last they meander, like old men, to join with the sea. And like the soles of men in the Nethervoid, they mix and mingle until the sun lifts them again as raindrops to fall upon the mountains.
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  5. David Gemmell _ Dark Moon

    Yours is a race whose imagination is limited to its own small appetites. Greed, lust, envy - these are the motivating forces of humankind. What redeems you is that in every man and woman there is a seed that can grow to encompass love, joy and compassion. But this seed is never allowed to prosper in fertile ground. It struggles for life among the rocks of your human soul.
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  6. David Gemmell _ Dark Moon

    Men don't change. They just learn to disguise the lack of change.
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  7. David Gemmell _ Shield of Thunder

    There is a darkness in you. In all of us, probably. Beasts we keep chained. Ordinary men have to keep the chains strong, for if we let the beast loose then society will turn upon us with fiery vengeance. Kings though...well, who is there to turn upon them? So the chains are made of straw. It is the curse of kings, Helikaon, that they can become monsters. And they invariably do.
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  8. Dante Alighieri _ The Divine Comedy

    Oh human creatures, born to soar aloft,Why fall ye thus before a little wind?
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  9. Virginia Woolf _ Orlando

    Buy for me from the King's own kennels, the finest elk hounds of the Royal strain, male and female. Bring them back without delay. For," he murmured, scarcely above his breath as he turned to his books, "I have done with men.
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  10. Gustave Flaubert _ The Letters, 1830-1880

    Just when the gods had ceased to be, and the Christ had not yet come, there was a unique moment in history, between Cicero and Marcus Aurelius, when man stood alone.
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  11. Markus Zusak

    First the colors. Then the humans. That's usually how I see things. Or at least, how I try
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  12. Markus Zusak _ The Book Thief

    I actually feel quite self-indulgent at the moment, telling you all about me, me, me.{...} On the other hand, you're a human -you should understand self obsession.
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