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Alessandra

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Yu Yu Hakusho, Vol. 1 (Yu Yu Hakusho, #1)

by Yoshihiro Togashi

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Il bestiario medievale

by Christian Heck

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Gente indipendente

by Halldór Laxness

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"A tutti risultava tanto più facile credere a un'incursione di spiriti quanto più difficile era stato credere a un'incursione di ratti, perché l'anima umana ha una predilezione per l'incredibile, mentre dubita del credibile. [p.384]
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La vita umana è così breve che la gente comune non può permettersi di viverla. [p393]" — Jan 19, 2022 07:23AM

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Alessandra’s Quotes

“To define is to limit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: dandy, lord-henry-wotton, wilde

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“Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

tags: dystopia

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“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

tags: love

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“Consequently, if you believe God made Satan, you must realize that all Satan's power comes from God and so that Satan is simply God's child, and that we are God's children also. There are no children of Satan, really.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

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