The Great Gatsby. F Scott Fitzgerald
“I wouldn’t ask too much of her,” I ventured. “You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!” He looked around him
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Religion for Atheists – Alain de Botton
It seems to know that we strive to be powerful chiefly because we are afraid of what will happen to us without high rank: we risk being stripped of dignity,
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Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami
I would describe only things that were touching or pleasant or beautiful: the fragrance of greases, the caress of a spring breeze, the light of the moon, a film I’d
Seneca the younger
most wretched is the condition of those who labour at engrossments that are not even their own, who regulate their sleep by that of another, their walk by the pace