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Luciana Nery

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Luciana’s Bookshelves

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philosophy‎ (39)

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business‎ (26)
science‎ (24)
biography‎ (22)
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spanish-language‎ (16)
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Book cover for Le Petit Prince: The little prince french edition

Le Petit Prince: The little prince french edition by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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repose d'abord sur la raison. Si tu ordonnes à ton peuple d'aller se jeter à la mer, il fera la révolution. J'ai le droit d'exiger l'obéissance parce que mes ordres sont raisonnables.

The Cause of it All

by Leo Tolstoy

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Mary

by Vladimir Nabokov

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Luciana’s Quotes

“One is always at home in one's past...”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory

tags: nostalgia

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“Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for (at some forty-five hundred heartbeats an hour).”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited

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“Certain tight parentheses have been opened and allowed to spill their still active contents.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited

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“In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited

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“An uninstructed person will lay the fault of his own bad condition upon others. Someone just starting instruction will lay the fault on himself. Some who is perfectly instructed will place blame neither on others nor on himself.”
― Epictetus, The Art of Living: The Classic Manual on Virtue, Happiness & Effectiveness

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