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Absalom, Absalom!

by William Faulkner

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Death and the Dervish

by Meša Selimović

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Bosnian Chronicle (Bosnian Trilogy, #2)

by Ivo Andrić

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Mia’s Notes & Highlights

The Barber of Seville by Pierre de Beaumarchais

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COUNT. Well, Figaro; you haven't starved since we parted; I think you are much lustier. FIGARO. Yes, Signor; want and fasting have done it. COUNT. Want? FIGARO. Yes, Signor; it has puff'd me out, as starv'd land produces a toad-stool.

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Mia’s Quotes

“The business was established and had old roots; is it not one thing to set up a new gin-palace and another accept an investment in an old one? The profits made out of lost souls—where can the line be drawn at which they begin in human transactions? Was it not even God’s way of saving His chosen?”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

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“Scenes which make vital changes in our neighbors’ lot are but the background of our own, yet, like a particular aspect of the fields and trees, they become associated for us with the epochs of our own history, and make a part of that unity which lies in the selection of our keenest consciousness.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

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“Everything seems too happy for me all at once. I thought it would always be part of my life to long for home, and losing that grievance makes me feel rather empty: I suppose it served instead of sense to fill up my mind?”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

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“…a swaggerer, who would aim at being noticeable even at a show of fireworks, regarding his own remarks on any other person’s performance as likely to be more interesting than the performance itself.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

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“Even if you’re going to live three thousand more years, or ten times that, remember: you cannot lose
another life than the one you’re living now, or live another one than the one you’re losing. The longest
amounts to the same as the shortest. The present is the same for everyone; its loss is the same for
everyone; and it should be clear that a brief instant is all that is lost. For you can’t lose either the past or
the future; how could you lose what you don’t have?”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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