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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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“Rejection, I have found, can be the only antidote to delusion”
― 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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“No matter what has occurred in your life up to this point, it should have no bearing at all on how you live from now on.’ That you, living in the here and now, are the one who determines your own life.”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness

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“A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself – and especially to feel. Or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is.” ― Jim Morrison”
― Darius Foroux, What It Takes To Be Free

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