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The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition

by Fernando Pessoa

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Notes of a Native Son

by James Baldwin

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“but every year a wreath is still laid at the memorial statue repeating the same old lies they told us a hundred years ago about bringing peace and prosperity to places like Afghanistan? … Does anyone out there really believe a bunch of guys used to sit around the Tim Hortons in Kandahar saying, “Thank you, thank you, thank you, Canada. Can we have two double-doubles to go with democracy?” …”
― David Fennario, Motherhouse

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“When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it's alive; then they have the parts and they've lost the whole, for the link that's missing was the living soul.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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