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Norwegian Wood

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Pietr the Latvian (Maigret, #1)

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A Murder of Quality (George Smiley, #2)

by John le Carré

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Ryland’s Quotes

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

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“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
― Logan Pearsall Smith

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“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
― Albert Einstein

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