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	Beowulf by Unknown, Ethelbert Talbot Donaldson (Adapted by), Sylva Ficová (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.50 avg rating — 350,810 ratings — published 1000 — 1774 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Levá strana světa by Lisa Genova (Goodreads Author), Sylva Ficová (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.98 avg rating — 81,694 ratings — published 2011 — 62 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Najdi mě (Dej mi své jméno, #2) by André Aciman (Goodreads Author), Sylva Ficová (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.25 avg rating — 87,485 ratings — published 2019 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jak vysoko klesneme by Sequoia Nagamatsu (Goodreads Author), Sylva Ficová (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.81 avg rating — 72,588 ratings — published 2022	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poslední věta by Lisa Genova (Goodreads Author), Sylva Ficová (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 4.12 avg rating — 48,104 ratings — published 2018 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hřejivé ruce duchů by Katherine Arden (Goodreads Author), Sylva Ficová (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.96 avg rating — 32,455 ratings — published 2024 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Neobyvatelná Země by David Wallace-Wells (Goodreads Author), Sylva Ficová (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.99 avg rating — 30,144 ratings — published 2019 — 66 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Město špíny by Hayley Scrivenor (Goodreads Author), Sylva Ficová (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.80 avg rating — 18,514 ratings — published 2022	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kaliban a čarodějnice by Silvia Federici, Sylva Ficová (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 4.56 avg rating — 14,556 ratings — published 2004 — 66 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Richard Ramirez: Night Stalker by Philip Carlo, Sylva Ficová (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 4.02 avg rating — 15,078 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Člověk bez osudu

by Imre Kertész

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An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter

by César Aira

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Spring: The Story of a Season

by Michael Morpurgo

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“Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: bernard-shaw, irish, pigs, pointlessness

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“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do it, think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a sister of the trophy cabinet, bastard of a sound bank account and a weak mind.”
― Jeanette Winterson

tags: books, obsession

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“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: happiness

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“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: belief, death, ideals, martyr, truth

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“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy

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