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In Search of Lost Time, Volume 2: In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami

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Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.

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“To read without joy is stupid.”
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“What do you despise? By this are you truly known.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

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“Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had not read; and the serenity for which he labored was shattered as he realized the little time he had in life to read so much, to learn what he had to know.”
― John Williams, Stoner

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“There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, 'Do trousers matter?'"
"The mood will pass, sir.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters

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“When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

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