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Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott

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They say that if you wear a mask long enough, you become what you pretend to be.

Floating Staircase

by Ronald Malfi

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The Glass Hotel

by Emily St. John Mandel

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“As if intoxicated, I then enjoyed her presence in the things I saw, and, desiring her in them, with the sight of them I was sated.”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

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“Each tradition grows more venerable the farther its origin lies in the past, the more it is forgotten; the respect paid to the tradition accumulates from generation to generation; finally the origin becomes sacred and awakens awe.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Aphorisms on Love and Hate

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“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it. (...) We want to be devoured by it, to hide ourselves in that fire which refines us.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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“The present moment is the only dimension of existence worth inhabiting, because it is the only one available to us. (...)
Yet we live virtually all of our lives somewhere between memories, and aspirations, nostalgia and expectations.”
― Luc Ferry, A Brief History of Thought: A Philosophical Guide to Living

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“One's thought patterns become different (...), when forced into the confines of a rigid and unfamiliar tongue. Certain common ideas become inexpressible; other, previously undreamt-of ones spring to life, finding miraculous new articulation.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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