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  1. Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ Crime and Punishment

    Life had stepped into the place of theory and something quite different would work itself out in his mind.
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  2. Bill Bryson _ A Really Short History of

    Because they are so long-lived, atoms really get around. Every atom you possess has almost certainly passed through several stars and been part of millions of organisms on its way to becoming you. We are each so atomically numerous and so vigorously recycled at death that a significant number of our atoms-up to a billion for each of us, it has been suggested-probably once belonged to Shakespeare. A billion more each came from Buddha and Genghis Khan and Beethoven, and any other historical figure you care to name. {The personages have to be historical, apparently, as it takes the atoms some decades to become thoroughly redistributed; however much you may wish it, you are not yet one with Elvis Presley.} So we are all reincarnations-though short-lived ones. When we die our atoms will disassemble and move off to find new uses elsewhere-as part of a leaf or other human being or drop of dew. Atoms, however, go on practically forever.
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  3. Aberjhani _ Splendid Literarium: A

    Individual cultures and ideologies have their appropriate uses but none of them erase or replace the universal experiences, like love and weeping and laughter, common to all human beings.
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  4. Madeleine L'Engle _ Walking on Water: Reflections

    If the artist reflects only his own culture, then his works will die with that culture. But if his works reflect the eternal and universal, they will revive.
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  5. Douglas Coupland

    Six silent people in a room got me to thinking about the voice we hear in our heads when we read, the universal narrator's voice you may well be hearing right now. Whose voice *is* it you're hearing? It's not your own, is it? I didn't think so. It never is. So I posed the question out loud...""...When you read a book, whose voice is it you hear inside your head?
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  6. Chaim Potok _ My Name Is Asher Lev

    Every artist is a man who has freed himself from his family, his nation, his race. Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.
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  7. Milan Kundera _ The Art of the Novel

    The uniform is that which we do not choose, that which is assigned to us; it is the certitude of the universal against the precariousness of the individual. When the values that were once so solid come under challenge and withdraw, heads bowed, he who cannot live without them {without fidelity, family, country, discipline, without love} buttons himself up in the universality of his uniform as if that uniform were the last shred of transcendence that could protect him against the cold of a future in which there will be nothing left to respect.
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