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Down and Out in Paris and London

by George Orwell

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Middlemarch

by George Eliot

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"not to be a hater but i'm not feeling the great british novel" — Aug 20, 2025 03:06PM

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Intermezzo

by Sally Rooney (Goodreads Author)

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"can you tell I've been busy?" — Oct 21, 2024 07:51AM

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“Everything I've ever let go of has claw marks on it. (on the wall of a bedroom at a recovery house for alcoholics and drug addicts)”
― David Foster Wallace

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“There’s always been something inside her that men have wanted to dominate, and their desire for domination can look so much like attraction, even love.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

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“The notion of my future suddenly snapped into focus: it didn't exist yet.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

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“For a moment I felt joyful, and then I felt completely exhausted.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

tags: exhausted, fleeting, fleeting-happiness, joyful, mood-swings, my-year-of-rest-and-relaxation, ottessa-moshfegh

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“Generally I find men are a lot more concerned with limiting the freedoms of women than exercising personal freedom for themselves.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

tags: freedom, oppression

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