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Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)

by Marcel Proust

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"I had not expected to laugh out loud at this book, but I have. Four times in the last hour! The droll, ironic descriptions are so delightfully surprising.

Also -- there are "first world problems" and then there are "Swann's Way problems." 50 pages worrying about whether one will get a good night kiss from mama. Asparagus used as chemical warfare. The upper middle class has never been so petty nor so entertaining." — Feb 09, 2014 04:02PM

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The Origin of Species

by Charles Darwin

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Aug 20, 2011 11:35AM

Hannah’s Quotes

“He soon felt that the fulfillment of his desires gave him only one grain of the mountain of happiness he had expected. This fulfillment showed him the eternal error men make in imagining that their happiness depends on the realization of their desires.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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