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Cloud Atlas

by David Mitchell

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Collected Works - Stories and Poems

by Edgar Allan Poe

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“Descendants! The gods had seen fit to give him one son who charged you for the amount of breath expended in saying ‘Good morning’, and another one who worshipped geometry and stayed up all night designing aqueducts. You scrimped and saved to send them to the best schools, and then they went and paid you back by getting educated.”
― Terry Pratchett, Pyramids

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“No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard and fast and specific decision.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August

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“They say Cain invented cities. And if it was not he, it was someone else fond of murder.”
― Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light

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“But we're a university! We have to have a library!" said Ridcully. "It adds tone. What sort of people would we be if we didn't go into the library?"

"Students," said Senior Wrangler morosely.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

tags: amusing, library, school, students, university

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“I shall never forget how I was roused one night by the groans of a fellow prisoner, who threw himself about in his sleep, obviously having a horrible nightmare. Since I had always been especially sorry for people who suffered from fearful dreams or deliria, I wanted to wake the poor man. Suddenly I drew back the hand which was ready to shake him, frightened at the thing I was about to do. At that moment I became intensely conscious of the fact that no dream, no matter how horrible, could be as bad as the reality of the camp which surrounded us, and to which I was about to recall him.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

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