Life and Death And Other Legends and Stories
By: Henryk Sienkiewicz
2.75
Format: 27 pages, Kindle Edition
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"Never venture, never win!"-Sun Tzu, The Art of War
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2. Daisy Miller
By: Henry James
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3. Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)
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4. Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
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"[…] but she cannot make him eat, like you."-Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
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"My soul abhors a falsehood"-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
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"Truth! Truth! Truth! crieth the Lord of the Abyss of Hallucinations"-Aleister Crowley, The Book of Lies
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"Go, and peace go with thee. Only, another time do not meddle with my game."-Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
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"My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him clearly at all."-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary
"He watched me at first but then looked away. "Would it be a major bereavement for you if I died?" I said. "The most major one I can think of, yeah." "Nobody else would grieve."-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary
"Death was, of course, the most ordinary thing that could happen, at some level I knew that. Still, I had stood there waiting to see the body in the river, ignoring the real living bodies all around m…"-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary
"Nothing inside my body was trying to kill me. Death was, of course, the most ordinary thing that could happen, at some level I knew that. Still, I had stood there waiting to see the body in the river…"-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary
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"Je vais parfaitement bien. Et c'était vrai. Jusqu'à ce que cela cesse de l'être."-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief
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"Anna Sergeevna e lui si amavano come due esseri molto vicini, affini, come marito e moglie, come se il destino li avesse destinati l'uno all'altra e non capivano perché li aveva fatti sposare con alt…"-Anton Chekhov, The Lady with the Little Dog
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29. Life and Death And Other Legends and Stories
By: Henryk Sienkiewicz
2.75
Format: 27 pages, Kindle Edition
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31. Leo Tolstoy by G.K. Chesterton, G.H. Perris, etc. 1903 [Leather Bound]
By: G.K. Chesterton
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Format: 56 pages, Leather Bound
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