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Madame Bovary (French Edition)

by Gustave Flaubert

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Memoirs of a Woman Doctor (Saqi Bookshelf)

by Nawal El Saadawi

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by Yōko Ogawa

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Boy's Life by Robert McCammon

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we all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born able to sing to birds and read the clouds and see our destiny in grains of sand. But then we get the magic educated right out of ...more

I always felt this and Robert couldn't have capture my thoughts any better. Looking at adults around me, those who seem so strict about everything in life, I often wondered if they had ever been carefree in their lives and whether they remember how it felt. I guess, everyone once had this magic in them and sadly lost it.

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“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
― Thomas A. Edison

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“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

tags: life, love

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“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

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“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning

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“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

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Whatcha reading 🤓 I’ll show you mine if you show me yours 😉