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Looking for The Stranger: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic

by Alice Kaplan

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Pardon My French: Unleash Your Inner Gaul

by Charles Timoney

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Sharks Don't Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist

by Jasmin Graham (Goodreads Author)

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“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

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“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

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“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

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“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

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“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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