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The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories by Tim Burton A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace How to Be Alone by Jonathan Franzen Sophocles 1 by Sophocles The Painted Word by Tom Wolfe The Road Not Taken and Other Poems by Robert Frost Greek Lyrics, Second Edition by Richmond Lattimore The Sunset Limited by Cormac McCarthy A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess Poems by William Blake Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake
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Friedrich Nietzsche
“you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame;
how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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James Joyce
“Touch me. Soft eyes. Soft soft soft hand. I am lonely here. O, touch me soon, now. What is that word known to all men? I am quiet here alone. Sad too. Touch, touch me.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses
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