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On Marriage and Concupiscence

by Augustine of Hippo

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Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes

by Tamim Ansary (Goodreads Author)

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Paradise Lost

by John Milton

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Irene ’s Quotes

“Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

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“I like airplanes. I like anywhere that isn't a proper place. I like in betweens.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives

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“When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it's alive; then they have the parts and they've lost the whole, for the link that's missing was the living soul.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

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“Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

tags: on-fiction, parables, storytelling

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