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The Cider House Rules by John Irving Buddhism without Beliefs by Stephen Batchelor One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon East of Eden by John Steinbeck The Long Walk by Brian Castner Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse Storyteller by Donald Sturrock The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
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E.M. Forster
“Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room With A View
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E.M. Forster
“It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View
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“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
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