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Walden or, Life in the Woods

by Henry David Thoreau

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Aug 23, 2011 09:49PM

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South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition

by Ernest Shackleton

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Jun 18, 2012 10:50PM

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On Art and Life (Penguin Great Ideas)

by John Ruskin

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Jun 18, 2011 12:25AM

Oanh’s Quotes

“We don't come fresh to even the most inaccessible of landscapes.
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We carry expectations and to an extent make what we meet conform to those expectations.

p 195”
― Robert MacFarlane

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“She supposed that houses, after all - like the lives that were lived in them - were mostly made of space. It was the spaces, in fact, which counted, rather than the bricks.”
― Sarah Waters, The Night Watch

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“Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed.”
― Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You

tags: time

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“I really did not feel okay about any of this, and there was really nothing I could do about any of it.”
― Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You

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“In Vietnamese, the word for water and the word for a nation, a country and a homeland are one and the same: nu’o'c.”
― Le Thi Diem Thuy, The Gangster We Are All Looking For

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