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Sense and Sensibility

by Jane Austen

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The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

by Dante Alighieri

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Cape Cod by Henry David Thoreau

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He never married, very rarely went to church, did not vote, refused to pay a tax to the State, ate no flesh, drank no wine, used no tobacco; and for a long time he was simply an oddity in the estimation of his fellow-townsmen. But when they ...more

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Soul Mates: Alien Style

by K.S. Riggin

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The Lamb

by Lucy Rose

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“There are scars on my heart, just as thick, as disfiguring as those on my face. I know they’re there. I hope some undamaged tissue remains, a patch through which love can come in and flow out. I hope.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

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“You know who gets to drink coffee at fuck-you hours, I thought? The French.”
― Sloane Crosley, Cult Classic

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“I suppose one of the reasons we’re all able to continue to exist for our allotted span in this green and blue vale of tears is that there is always, however remote it might seem, the possibility of change.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

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“It’s difficult to comfort oneself by shrinking one’s emotions without conceding that one has allowed those emotions to expand, unchecked, in the first place.”
― Sloane Crosley, Cult Classic

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“It’s unfortunate, I thought, how some of the world’s most productive conversations are breakup conversations. People think, “If only we could have talked like this the whole time, things would’ve been different.” But you couldn’t have. That level of honesty requires a resoluteness achievable only by being within spitting distance of the exit.”
― Sloane Crosley, Cult Classic

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