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A Confederacy of Dunces

by John Kennedy Toole

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Dubliners

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The Dalkey Archive

by Flann O'Brien

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Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

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Though the things of the world were strong with me still.

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“The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man.”
― David Hilbert

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“If we could truly see ourselves the way others see us we'd disappear on the spot.”
― Émile Michel Cioran

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“If you free yourself from the conventional reaction to a quantity like a million years, you free yourself a bit from the boundaries of human time. And then in a way you do not live at all, but in another way you live forever.”
― John McPhee, Basin and Range

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“Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.”
― John Maynard Keynes

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“In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It's important to combine the two in just the right amount.”
― Haruki Murakami, After Dark

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