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Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)

by Octavia E. Butler

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Orientalism

by Edward W. Said

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Lustrum (Cicero, #2)

by Robert Harris (Goodreads Author)

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Lenka’s Quotes

“The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born”
― Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks

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“All is vanity, nothing is fair.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

tags: misattributed-to-thackeray, not-in-source

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“We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

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“Ah! Vanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?-Come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

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“Well-behaved women seldom make history.”
― Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

tags: inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, women

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