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Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

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The Making of Asian America: A History

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Reasons and Feelings: Writing for the Humanities Now (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)

by Sarah Elizabeth Mesle

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“Dissonance before moments of harmony makes the harmony sound beautiful. Just as harmony and dissonance exist side by side in music, life is the same. Because harmony is preceded by dissonance, that's why we think life's beautiful.”
― Hwang Bo-reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop

tags: life-philosophy

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“Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.”
― Pablo Neruda

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“May your Paths be safe, your Floors unbroken and may the House fill your eyes with Beauty.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

tags: beauty, house, path

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“The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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