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The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson Wabi-Sabi by Leonard Koren In Harm's Way by Doug Stanton Story by Robert McKee Strength to Love by Martin Luther King Jr. Chess Story by Stefan Zweig The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway Cicero by Anthony Everitt Augustus by Anthony Everitt Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays
tags: life, living, observation, spectacle
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Biography, Classics, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Memoir, Philosophy, Psychology, Religion, Self help, Spirituality, and Thriller


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