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From Hell: Master Edition

by Alan Moore (Goodreads Author)

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Cumbres borrascosas

by Emily Brontë

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La Fotografía Vernácula

by Clément Chéroux

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Las intermitencias de la muerte by José Saramago

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Sin muerte, óigame bien, señor primer ministro, sin muerte no hay resurrección, y sin resurrección no hay iglesia,

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by Olga Tokarczuk

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The Buried Giant

by Kazuo Ishiguro

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“Also, whenever I read this paragraph to people who don't live in the South, they get hung up on the fact that we had furniture devoted to just guns, but in rural Texas pretty much everyone has a gun cabinet. Unless they're gay. Then they have gun armoires.”
― Jenny Lawson, Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir

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“You can wet the rim of a glass and run your finger around the rim and it will make a sound. This is what I feel like: this sound of glass. I feel like the word shatter. I want to be with someone.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

tags: shatter, vulnerable

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“Politics requires sacrifice. The sacrifice of others, of course.”
― Michael Dobbs, House of Cards

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“Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough.”
― Ted Chiang, The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate

tags: forgiveness, repentance

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“Change is not an event, but a process. Change happens through a series of stages, and most successful self-changers fail at least once before they succeed.”
― K. Akhter, Goal Setting: Discover What You Want in Life and Achieve It Faster than You Think Possible

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