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Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

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The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists (Oxford World’s Classics)

by Robin Waterfield

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All the Stories of Muriel Spark

by Muriel Spark

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Andrew’s Quotes

“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

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“We all appear to ourselves frustrated in our old age...because we cling to everything so much. But in reality we are still fulfilling our lives.”
― Muriel Spark, Memento Mori

tags: accomplishment, old-age

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“I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Volume Three, 1923-1928

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“I'm going to put death in all their food and watch them die.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

tags: death, hate, poison

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“Everything in the world was in precarious balance, pure risk, and those who didn’t agree to take the risk wasted away in a corner, without getting to know life.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name

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