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Premier amour. Erste Liebe

by Samuel Beckett

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Switched On: Bob Moog and the Synthesizer Revolution

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Eine Liebe von Swann (Auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Zeit #1.2)

by Marcel Proust

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Das Leben des Vernon Subutex 1 by Virginie Despentes

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Sich verändern heißt immer einen Teil von sich verlieren. Man spürt, wie er sich nach einer gewissen Zeit der Anpassung löst. Empfindet zugleich Trauer und Erleichterung. Ihre ganz persönliche Reise ging weiter.

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The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User's Manual

by Ward Farnsworth

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Jarno’s Quotes

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books

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“The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”
― H. P. Lovecraft

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“Who else sat on a wet rock, naked, reading ancient Greek?”
― Charlotte Gordon, Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley

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“If you want to live where people are not afraid of mice, you must give up living in palaces.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

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“Spring is the time of plans and projects.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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