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Dead Men's Path

by Chinua Achebe

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Women Artists (Art Essentials) (Art Essentials, 6)

by Flavia Frigeri

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“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

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“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
― Anaïs Nin

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“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

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“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

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