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The Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple #1)

by Agatha Christie

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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)

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Daisy Miller

by Henry James

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PRACTICE OF BRAHMACHARYA by Sivananda Saraswati

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“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

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“A great nose may be an index
Of a great soul”
― Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac

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“…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.”
― Homer, The Iliad

tags: classics, greece, longing, love, lovers

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“O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224)”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

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“Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, whether you like it or not.”
― Thomas Henry Huxley, Collected Works of Thomas Henry Huxley

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September Readalong of Bellman & Black #bellmanandblackalong — 107 members — last activity Oct 02, 2019 10:25AM
This September (2019) I'll be hosting a readalong of Diane Setterfield's Bellman & Black, an amazing novel by my favourite modern author, Diane Setter ...more

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