1933


Down and Out in Paris and London
In Praise of Shadows
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Lost Horizon
The Red Pony
Miss Lonelyhearts
Man's Fate
The Street of Crocodiles
Testament of Youth
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Lord Edgware Dies (Hercule Poirot, #9)
Murder Must Advertise  (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10)
Walt Disney's Three Little Pigs (A Little Golden Book)
Residence on Earth
The Engagement
A man who restricts the freedom of his mistress or wife, by any prohibition, rings the death knell of his "eternal love" in advance, which was not strong enough to pass beyond the limits of his own personal egotism. In most cases, this jealous selfishness first flatters young women; but her ideal will be trampled on as soon as she admires his insane fear of his own impotent jealousy. ...more
Pierre de Lasenic, Sexual Mysteries: Oriental Love & Sexual Magic

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Oh, without the brigade one could still somehow manage to survive the camp! Without the brigade you are an individual, you yourself choose your own line of conduct. Without the brigade you can at least die proudly, but in the brigade the only way they allow you even to die is in humiliation, on your belly. From the chief, from the camp foreman, from the jailer, from the convoy guard, from all of them you can hide and catch a moment of rest; you can ease up a bit here on hauling, shirk a bit ther ...more
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books III-IV

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