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Rape: A Love Story

by Joyce Carol Oates

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Zorba the Greek

by Nikos Kazantzakis

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De fuego cercada. Geografía secreta de Madrid

by Servando Rocha

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“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It

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“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
― Plato

tags: attributed-no-source, compassion, kindness

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

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing

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“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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OUR SHARED SHELF IS CURRENTLY DORMANT AND NOT MANAGED BY EMMA AND HER TEAM. Dear Readers, As part of my work with UN Women, I have started reading ...more

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Grupo dedicado a todos aquellos que aman los géneros fantástico, de terror y de ciencia ficción. Queremos apoyar la escritura de novelas, guiones y ju ...more

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