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White Nights

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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The Secret of Secrets (Robert Langdon, #6)

by Dan Brown (Goodreads Author)

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Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings

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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

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“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”
― Rumi

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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

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“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

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