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The Mayor of Casterbridge

by Thomas Hardy

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Nov 10, 2025 07:20AM

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Leonard Cohen: Poems and Songs

by Leonard Cohen

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Prophet

by Kahlil Gibran

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“I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

tags: forgiveness

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“Men are easy,' he said, fingers tapping on his mahogany desk. 'A man's plumbing is like his mind: simple, very few surprises. You ladies, on the other hand...well, God put a lot of thought into making you.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

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“He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.”
― Philip Roth, American Pastoral

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“He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

tags: experience, growing-up, innocence, life, loss-of-innocence, truths, youth

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“Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

tags: betrayals, constancy, courage, cowardice, steadfastness, truthfulness

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