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Stalingrad

by Vasily Grossman

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“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

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“Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles of patent medicine, on those instructions for keeping the contents crisp which are printed on the outside of boxes of breakfast cereals. On anything.”
― Aldous Huxley, Olive Tree

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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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― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories

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