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The Iliad

by Homer

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"realizing that basically every other character is Zeus' son, grandson, or great-grandson... I feel like I need a flowchart to keep track of these battle rosters" — Apr 20, 2026 02:00PM

Apr 16, 2026 04:12PM

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Suttree

by Cormac McCarthy

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The Wall

by Marlen Haushofer

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Mar 27, 2026 10:53AM

⊹ Ellie ⊹’s Quotes

“I'll miss myself so bad when I die.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

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“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

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“Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had not read; and the serenity for which he labored was shattered as he realized the little time he had in life to read so much, to learn what he had to know.”
― John Williams, Stoner

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