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“Hanna had Communist leanings, which I couldn’t bear, and on the other a tendency to mysticism, or to put it less kindly, hysteria”
― Homo Faber
― Homo Faber
“I had been grateful for her willingness to keep in touch. If I was not there to see my children each night when they came home from school, to have dinners with them and do homework and take them shopping and work on school assignments, I could at least get regular updates from her. How would I be a parent to them now?”
― All Who Go Do Not Return
― All Who Go Do Not Return
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― Homo Faber
― Homo Faber
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― Sons and Lovers
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― Kafka's Other Trial: The Letters to Felice
― Kafka's Other Trial: The Letters to Felice
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