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  1. Victor Hugo _ Les Misérables

    So long as there shall exist, by reason of law and custom, a social condemnation, which, in the face of civilisation, artificially creates hells on earth, and complicates a destiny that is divine, with human fatality; so long as the three problems of the age - the degradation of man by poverty, the ruin of woman by starvation, and the dwarfing of childhood by physical and spiritual night - are not solved; so long as, in certain regions, social asphyxia shall be possible; in other words, and from a yet more extended point of view, so long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless.
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  2. Sarah J. Maas _ A Court of Mist and Fury

    Maybe I'd always been broken and dark inside. Maybe someone who've been born whole and good would have put down the ash dagger and embraced death rather than what lay before me.
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  3. Arthur Conan Doyle _ The Adventure of the Blue

    My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.
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  4. Herman Melville _ Moby-Dick, or, the Whale

    Call me Ishmael.
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  5. Anne Carson _ Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

    It is the task of a lifetime. You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.
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  6. Harry G. Frankfurt _ On Truth

    Is truth something that in fact we do-and should-especially care about? Or is the love of truth, as professed by so many distinguished thinkers and writers, itself merely another example of ?
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  7. Amy Tan _ Saving Fish from Drowning

    {Karen Lundegaard} was quite frail, debilitated by metastatic breast cancer, which she had long known she had but for which she had been unable to get adequate treatment because she lacked medical insurance. {"If you mention anything about me," she said, "tell people that."}"
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  8. Thomas Pynchon _ Slow Learner: Early Stories

    But as we all know, rock 'n' roll will never die, and education too, as Henry Adams always sez, keeps going on forever."
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  9. Anthony Burgess _ A Clockwork Orange

    The 21st chapter gives the novel the quality of genuine fiction, an art founded on the principle that human beings change. ----- "A Clockwork Orange Resucked" intro to first full American version 1986
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  10. Orson Scott Card _ Ender's Game

    Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that I am today.
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  11. Mitch Albom _ Tuesdays with Morrie

    Do you prefer Mitch? Or is Mitchell better?'.. .. Mitch, I say. Mitch is what my friends called me. 'Well, Mitch it is then,' Morrie says, as if closing a deal. 'And, Mitch?' Yes? 'I hope one day you will think of me as your friend.
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