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Lonely Crowds

by Stephanie Wambugu (Goodreads Author)

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Diaries, 1910-1923

by Franz Kafka

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Against Interpretation and Other Essays

by Susan Sontag

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“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

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“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor

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“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: grief, inspirational

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“Being alone has a power over me that never fails. My interior dissolves (for the time being only superficially) and is ready to release what lies deeper. When I am willfully alone, a slight ordering of my interior begins to take place and I need nothing more.”
― Franz Kafka, Diaries, 1910-1923

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