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Petru cel Mare

by Henri Troyat

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Zavaidoc în anul iubirii

by Doina Ruști (Goodreads Author)

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Travels with Charley: In Search of America

by John Steinbeck

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Stela’s Quotes

“People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

tags: criticism

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“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus

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“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

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“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation

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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

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