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The Age of Revolution, 1789–1848 by Eric J. Hobsbawm

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by Charles Dickens

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The It Girl

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Alys’s Notes & Highlights

The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon

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“If snow melts down to water, does it still remember being snow?”

The Road

by Cormac McCarthy

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Gone Girl

by Gillian Flynn

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Alys’s Quotes

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

tags: books, humor

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“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

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“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter

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“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: reality

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“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace

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