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Possessing the Secret of Joy

by Alice Walker

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Go Set a Watchman

by Harper Lee

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The Casual Vacancy

by J.K. Rowling

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“A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Семейное счастие

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“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

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“Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

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“A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.”
― Rabindranath Tagore

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