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Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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THIS LIBRARY IS full of stories of supposed triumphs, which makes me very suspicious of it. It’s misleading for people to read about great successes, since even for middle-class and upper-class white people, in my experience, failure is the ...more

Hunger

by Knut Hamsun

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“The captain came to me an hour ago. I wrote up his statement and right after that the sentence. Then I had the man chained up. It was all very simple. If I had first summoned the man and interrogated him, the result would have been confusion. He would have lied, and if I had been successful in refuting his lies, he would have replaced them with new lies, and so forth. But now I have him, and I won't release him again.”
― Franz Kafka, The Complete Stories

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