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Gifts for an Emerging World
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Jennifer Harvey Sallin (Editor)

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Doctor Faustus

by Thomas Mann

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Tata

by Valérie Perrin

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Les Essais (en français moderne)

by Michel de Montaigne

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read in July 2018

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“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders

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“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers

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