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Berlin Alexanderplatz

by Alfred Döblin

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The Ash Wednesday Supper (RSART: Renaissance Society of America Reprint Text Series)

by Giordano Bruno

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Vladimir’s Quotes

“Some people are fond of horses, others of wild animals; in my case, I have been possessed since childhood by a prodigious desire to buy and own books.”
― Julian the Apostate

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“At every person's birth, he or she is assigned a certain daemon by his own star, a guardian of life to help with his destined task.”
― Marsilio Ficino

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“How slow life is, how violent hope is.”
― Guillaume Apollinaire

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“And what is the use of knowing many things if, when you have learned the dimensions of heaven and earth, the measure of the seas, the courses of stars, the virtues of plants and stones, the secrets of nature, you still don’t know yourself?”
― Francesco Petrarca

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“But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you—the social reformers—see, but they may not, is to deny their human essence, to treat them as objects without wills of their own, and therefore to degrade them.”
― Isaiah Berlin

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