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"Collection of Franz Kafka’s works.

The Trial ✔️❎❎❎❎ (4 stars)
The Castle
Amerika
A Hunger Artist and Other Stories (Including ‘In the Penal Colony’ and ‘Metamorphosis’)
The Chinese Wall and Other Stories"
Jan 30, 2021 03:51AM

 
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Alexander Pope
“What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.”
Alexander Pope, Essay on Man and Other Poems

William Shakespeare
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
William Shakespeare, As You Like It

Ralph Waldo Emerson
“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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