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to-read‎ (204)
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read‎ (490)
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americans‎ (63)
detectives‎ (35)

sci-fi-fantasy‎ (34)
sociology‎ (31)
spy‎ (25)
working-labor‎ (23)
favorites‎ (18)
europeans‎ (17)

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swedish‎ (9)
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race-in-u-s‎ (8)
war‎ (6)
drama-gr‎ (4)

exploration‎ (3)
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cs-analytics‎ (2)
young-adult‎ (2)
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Christopher’s Quotes

“Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

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“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

tags: freedom, solitude

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“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
― Steve Martin

tags: humor, obvious, simile

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“One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, "What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew i would never see it again?”
― Rachel Carson

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“I shall have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love, love, love, above all. Love as there has never been in a play. Unbiddable, ungovernable, like a riot in the heart and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture.”
― Tom Stoppard

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