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  1. Gustave Flaubert _ Madame Bovary

    What baffled him was that there should be all this fuss about something so simple as love.
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  2. Leo Tolstoy _ Anna Karenina

    When the peasants and their song had vanished from his sight and hearing, a heavy feeling of anguish at his loneliness, his bodily idleness, his hostility to this world, came over him...It was all drowned in the sea of cheerful common labor. God had given the day, God had given the strength. Both day and strength had been devoted to labour and in that lay the reward...Levin had often admired this life, had often experienced a feeling of envy for the people who lived this life, but that day for the first time...the thought came clearly to Levin that it was up to him to change that so burdensome, idle, artificial and individual life he lived into this laborious, pure and common, lovely life.
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  3. Henry David Thoreau _ Walden

    It is desirable that a man live in all respects so simply and preparedly that if an enemy take the town... he can walk out the gate empty-handed and without anxiety.
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  4. Arthur Conan Doyle _ The Complete Sherlock Holmes

    Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he.
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  5. L.M. Montgomery _ Anne of Avonlea

    After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.
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  6. Douglas Coupland _ The Gum Thief

    People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity.
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  7. Frank Herbert _ Dune

    The Fremen have a simple, practical religion," he said."Nothing about religion is simple.
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  8. Ayn Rand _ The Fountainhead

    The structures were austere and simple, until one looked at them and realized what work, what complexity of method, what tension of thought had achieved the simplicity.
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  9. Amy Tan _ The Bonesetter's Daughter

    A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.
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  10. Sylvia Plath _ The Bell Jar

    I woke to the sound of rain.
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  11. Larry McMurtry _ Lonesome Dove

    His purpose was to get done what needed to be done, and what needed to be done was simple, if not easy.
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  12. Larry McMurtry _ Lonesome Dove

    It seemed to him harder, as he got older, to find a simple way of life.
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