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Maurice

by E.M. Forster

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Un héros de notre temps - Le Démon (French Edition)

by Mikhail Lermontov

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The Beautiful Fall: Fashion, Genius and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris

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“Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

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“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

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“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

tags: coldness, depression, happiness, life, sad, sadness, sorrow

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“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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“I tore off my mask so as not to lose one of her tears... and she did not run away!...and she did not die!... She remained alive, weeping over me, weeping with me. We cried together! I have tasted all the happiness the world can offer.”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

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