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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Acts 17:28).

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

Simone de Beauvoir

The Blood of Others

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De Beauvoir, Simone. Le Sang des autres [The Blood of Others]. Gallimard, 1945, ch. 5.

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Einstein, Albert. "To Jost Winteler." The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, vol. 1: The Early Years, 1879-1902, English Translation Supplement, translated by Anna Beck. Princeton University Press, 1987, no. 115. Originally from Letter to Jost Winteler, 8 July 1901.

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Hitler, Adolf. Mein Kampf [My Struggle]. Vol. 1, Franz Eher Nachfolger GmbH, 1925, ch. 6.

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Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in journal entry by James Boswell. 6 July 1763.

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Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson, written by James Boswell, edited by David Womersley. Penguin Classics, 2008.

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Shakespeare, William. King Lear. King's Men, 26 Dec. 1606, Palace of Whitehall, Westminster, England, UK, act 2, sc. 4.

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Shakespeare, William. "The Tragedy of King Lear." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 4.

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Letter to Carl Friedrich Zelter. 3 Nov. 1812.

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Shakespeare, William. Richard III. London: Andrew Wise, 1597, act 1, sc. 3.

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Shakespeare, William. "Richard the Third." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 1, sc. 3.

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Voltaire. "Argent [Money]." Dictionnaire Philosophique [Philosophical Dictionary]. c. 1764.

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Freud, Sigmund. Letter to Wilhelm Fliess. 16 Jan. 1898.

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Freud, Sigmund. The Complete Letters of Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess, 1887-1904, translated and edited by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson. Harvard University Press, 1985.

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Romans 6:23).

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Pascal, Blaise [published as Louis de Montalte]. "February 25, 1656." Les Provinciales ou Les Lettres Escrites [The Provincial Letters]. c. 1657, letter 4.

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Menschliches, Allzumenschliches: Ein Buch für freie Geister [Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits]. Chemnitz: Ernst Schmeizner, 1878, second division, no. 96.

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits, translated by Marion Faber and Stephen Lehmann. University of Nebraska Press, 1984, second division, no. 96.

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Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 1, sc. 5.

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Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 1, sc. 5.

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Spruche in Prosa Maximen und Reflexionen [Sayings in Prose, Maxims and Reflections]. c. 1840, no. 843.

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Maxims and Reflections, translated by Elizabeth Stopp, edited by Peter Hutchinson. Penguin Books, 2005, no. 843.

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Shakespeare, William. Shake-speares Sonnets. London: Thomas Thorpe, 1609, sonnet 30, I. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "The Sonnets." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, sonnet 30.

It is cocaine...a seven-per-cent solution. Would you care to try it?

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Sign of Four

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Doyle, Arthur. "The Sign of the Four; or, The Problem of the Sholtos." Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. London: Lippincott's, 1890, ch. 1.

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Doyle, Arthur. The Sign of Four. The Sherlock Holmes Collector's Library. Detective Fiction, 2009, ch. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 3, sc. 4.

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Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 4.

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Dickens, Charles. "Great Expectations." All the Year Round. London: Chapman and Hall, 29 Dec. 1860, issue 5, ch. 8.

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Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 8.

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Tolstoy, Leo. "Севастополь в Мае [Sevastopol in May]." Sovremennik, 1855.

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Tolstoy, Leo. "Sevastopol in May." The Cossacks and Other Stories, translated by David McDuff and Paul Foote. Penguin Books, 2006.