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White Nights

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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The Name of the Rose

by Umberto Eco

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The Moviegoer

by Walker Percy

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

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“There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.”
― Roberto Bolaño, The Savage Detectives

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“The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive.”
― Carlos Castaneda

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“I want to make a poem of my life.”
― Yukio Mishima

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

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