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Chess (Little Clothbound Classics)

by Stefan Zweig

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Fifty Poems

by Rainer Maria Rilke

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A Moveable Feast

by Ernest Hemingway

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“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”
― Voltaire

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“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
― Albert Einstein

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“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Man is the cruelest animal.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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