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Far Horizons: All New Tales from the Greatest Worlds of Science Fiction

by Robert Silverberg

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Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

by David J. Garrow

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“You will do well to take advantage of Madame's short residence to get up your French a little... You will be glad of this, my dear, when you have reached France, where you will find they speak nothing else.”
― Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Uncle Silas

tags: french, humour

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“Pellerin used to read every available book on aesthetics, in the hope of discovering the true theory of Beauty, for he was convinced that once he had found it he would be able to paint masterpieces.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education

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“Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect.”
― Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities

tags: humanity, nature, sociology, thought

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“Each man is the bard of his own existence. This is how he is joined to the world.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain

tags: existence, fulfillment, life, meaning

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“A sad angel with gentle feminine hands, as red as those of a peasant woman, with lips perfumed with honey, tobacco and green tea.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

tags: descriptive-prose, poetic, sensual

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