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	Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver (Goodreads Author), Peter F. L. Jílek (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 4.02 avg rating — 247,685 ratings — published 2012 — 2 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
	V tejto sa princezná zachráni sama by Amanda Lovelace, Ema Malíšková (Translator), Peter F. L. Jílek (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.82 avg rating — 164,342 ratings — published 2016 — 33 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
	Cisár by Ryszard Kapuściński, Patrik Oriešek (Translator), Peter F. L. Jílek (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.08 avg rating — 9,806 ratings — published 1978	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
	U ime oca by Balla, Maja Novković (Translator), Peter F. L. Jílek (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.66 avg rating — 401 ratings — published 2011 — 11 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
	Ale by Tomáš Ulej (Goodreads Author), Peter F. L. Jílek (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Katarína Slaninková (Illustrator) 4.22 avg rating — 130 ratings — published 2012 — 2 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
	Fantázia 2011: Antológia fantastických poviedok by Ivan Pullman (Editor), Peter F. L. Jílek (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Martin Vlachynský 3.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2011	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
	Metrofóbia by Maroš Hečko, Lucie Potůčková, Peter Balko 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2012	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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“No netreba lietať v oblakoch, človek sa v biologickej taxonómii hrdí prívlastkom rozumný, lebo sa tak v prvom rade pomenoval sám a pravdepodobne by to spravili aj potkany či šváby, mať viac mozgovej kôry.”
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“Every literary critic was an avid bookworm once, drinking cocoa instead of coffee, before the superpower appeared.”
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“There are only two things that make me angry in the world: dilettantism and intolerance!”
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“Every literary critic was an avid bookworm once, drinking cocoa instead of coffee, before the superpower appeared.”
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“Geheimnisse sind noch keine Wunder.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections

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“Hominem unius libri timeo”
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“When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.”
― Montaigne, Les Essais

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