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Letters to a Young Poet

by Rainer Maria Rilke

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The Goldfinch

by Donna Tartt

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Washington Square

by Henry James

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“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

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“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

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

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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

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“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

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