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Lonesome Dove (Italian edition)

by Larry McMurtry

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Il libro segreto degli elfi d'Islanda

by Hjörleifur Hjartarson

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I racconti di Kolyma

by Varlam Shalamov

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I Miserabili by Victor Hugo

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Sia detto di sfuggita, il successo è una cosa abbastanza odiosa. La sua falsa somiglianza con il merito inganna gli uomini. Per la folla, la riuscita ha quasi lo stesso profilo della supremazia. Il successo, questo sosia del talento, ha uno ...more

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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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“You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
― Annie Proulx

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“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation

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“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

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“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”
― Isaac Newton, The Correspondence of Isaac Newton: Volume 5, 1709–1713

tags: principia, science

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