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Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert

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Andrew Stanley said: " Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina” is probably my favorite novel. While tearing through it one summer break, an English professor friend of mine kept insisting I should read “Madame Bovary” instead. She loathed “Anna Karenina” and declared “Madame Bovary” the ...more "

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The Pirate Menace: Uncovering the Golden Age of Piracy

by Angus Konstam

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The Bedside Baccalaureate: A Handy Daily Cerebral Primer to Fill in the Gaps, Refresh Your Knowledge & Impress Yourself & Other Intellectuals

by David Rubel

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“He could not be mistaken. There were no other eyes like those in the world. There was only one creature in the world who could concentrate for him all the brightness and meaning of life. It was she. It was Kitty.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: anna-karenina, levin, love

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“I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

tags: the-sun-also-rises

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“Ideas are much more lasting than anything else in man's civilization, and those which find themselves in modern minds have roots going back into the immemorial past.”
― John Herman Randall, The Making of the Modern Mind, a Survey of the Int

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“Spiritual people use religion to become better people. Fundamentalists use religion to pretend they’re better than other people.”
― John Fugelsang, Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds

tags: fundamentalist, spirituality

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“Institutions die from within, leaving the shell of ceremony erect, until it’s discovered to be meaningless.”
― C. Delisle Burns, THE FIRST EUROPE. A study of the establishment of medieval Christendom A.D. 400-

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