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Maria’s favorite books

The Oresteian Trilogy by Aeschylus The Three Theban Plays by Sophocles City of God by Augustine of Hippo Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier 1984 by George Orwell Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott Introduction to the Devout Life by Francis de Sales The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery Beloved by Toni Morrison
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Maria’s Quotes

Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
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G.K. Chesterton
“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
― G.K. Chesterton
tags: books, literature, on-fiction
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Harper Lee
“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
tags: reading
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J.R.R. Tolkien
“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
tags: faith
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Ernest Hemingway
“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway
tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes
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Children's, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Mystery, Non-fiction, Science fiction, Thriller, african-american-literature, literature, classic-literature, banned-books, psychological, science-fiction-fantasy, speculative-fiction, and Gothic


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