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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

by Patrick Süskind

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

by James Joyce

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Thus Spoke Zarathustra

by Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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“It was proof that I had not always been completely alone in this world. But I think I was also holding on to the loss, to the emptiness of the house itself, as though to affirm that it was better to be alone than to be stuck with people who were supposed to love you, yet couldn’t.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

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“As long as you haven't experienced this: to die and so to grow, you are only a troubled stranger on the dark earth.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Selected Poetry

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“Rejection, I have found, can be the only antidote to delusion”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

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“I belong to quick, futile moments of intense feeling. Yes, I belong to moments. Not to people.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897-1909

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