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Cien años de soledad

by Gabriel García Márquez

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Notes from a Dead House (Vintage Classics)

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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And Yet: Essays

by Christopher Hitchens

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“For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.”
― Albert Camus, Summer in Algiers

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“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: hell, love, suffering

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“We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out of our Edens.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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