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Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck The Good Earth Trilogy by Pearl S. Buck The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing Hamlet by Kenneth Branagh The Client by John Grisham 1984 by George Orwell Bella Poldark by Winston Graham The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
“To do nothing is the way to be nothing.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Joseph Conrad
“We live as we dream--alone....”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
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Joseph Conrad
“It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
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Simone de Beauvoir
“Ready-made phrases and the ritual of etiquette were unknown to him; his thoughtfulness was pure improvisation, and it resembled the little inventions affection inspires.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Mandarins
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Doris Lessing
“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
― Doris Lessing
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