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A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

James Joyce

Ulysses

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Joyce, James. Ulysses. Shakespeare and Company, 1922, bk. 2, ch. 9.

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Joyce, James. The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses: The 1922 Text with Essays and Notes, edited by Catherine Flynn. Cambridge University Press, 2022, ch. 9.

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Any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells like a calculated irony on the indifference or the frozen stare with which we look at our unintroduced neighbor.

George Eliot

Middlemarch

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Eliot, George. Middlemarch. William Edinburgh/London: Blackwood and Sons, 1871–1872, bk. 1, ch. 11.

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Eliot, George. Middlemarch, edited by Rosemary Ashton. Penguin Classics, 2003, bk. 1, ch. 11.

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Rest and be kind, you don't have to prove anything.

Jack Kerouac

The Dharma Bums

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Kerouac, Jack. The Dharma Bums. Viking Press, 1958, ch. 11.

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The sea... The snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.

James Joyce

Ulysses

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Joyce, James. Ulysses. Shakespeare and Company, 1922, bk. 1, ch. 1.

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Joyce, James. The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses: The 1922 Text with Essays and Notes, edited by Catherine Flynn. Cambridge University Press, 2022, ch. 1.

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He said he should prefer not to know the sources of the Nile, and that there should be some unknown regions preserved as hunting-grounds for the poetic imagination.

George Eliot

Middlemarch

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Eliot, George. Middlemarch. William Edinburgh/London: Blackwood and Sons, 1871–1872, bk. 1, ch. 9.

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Eliot, George. Middlemarch, edited by Rosemary Ashton. Penguin Classics, 2003, bk. 1, ch. 9.

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May the odds be ever in your favor!

Suzanne Collins

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Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games. Scholastic Press, 2008, ch. 1.

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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. London: Ward, Lock and Co., 1891, ch. 19.

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Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray, edited by Robert Mighall. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 19.

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It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Charlotte Brontë

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography

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Brontë, Charlotte, [published as Currer Bell]. Jane Eyre: An Autobiography. Vol. 1, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1847, ch. 12.

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Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Penguin Classics, 2006, ch. 12.

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Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name we gave to our mistakes.

Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Wilde, Oscar. "The Picture of Dorian Gray." Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Philadelphia, July 1890, ch. 3.

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Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray, edited by Robert Mighall. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 4.

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"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."

Lewis Carroll

Through the Looking-Glass

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Carroll, Lewis. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. London: Macmillan, 1871, ch. 4.

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Carroll, Lewis. "Through the Looking-Glass." Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass. Macmillan Collector's Library, 2016, ch. 4.

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A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied.

Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Wilde, Oscar. "The Picture of Dorian Gray." Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Philadelphia, July 1890, ch. 4.

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Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray, edited by Robert Mighall. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 6.

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When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.

Franz Kafka

The Metamorphosis

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Kafka, Franz. Die Verwandlung [The Metamorphosis]. Verlag, 1915, ch. 1.

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Kafka, Franz. The Metamorphosis, translated by Susan Bernofsky. W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, ch. 1.

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Every trail has its end, and every calamity brings its lesson!

James Fenimore Cooper

The Last of the Mohicans

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Cooper, James Fenimore. The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757. Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & I. Lea, 1826, ch. 25.

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Cooper, James Fenimore. "The Last of the Mohicans." James Fenimore Cooper: The Leatherstocking Tales. Vol. 1, Library of America, 1985, ch. 25.

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The rest of my life stretches out as an emptiness before me.

Kazuo Ishiguro

The Remains of the Day

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Ishiguro, Kazuo. The Remains of the Day. Faber & Faber, 1989.

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He loved the People just as much as he feared and detested Persons.

Sinclair Lewis

It Can't Happen Here

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Lewis, Sinclair. It Can't Happen Here. Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1935, ch. 35.

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And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

Stephen Chbosky

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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Chbosky, Stephen. The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Pocket Books, 1999.

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Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves.

Haruki Murakami

Kafka on the Shore

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Murakami, Haruki. 海辺のカフカ [Kafka on the Shore]. Shinchosha, 2002.

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No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Sorrows of Young Werther

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Die Leiden des jungen Werthers [The Sorrows of Young Werther]. Leipzig: Weygand'sche Buchhandlung, 1774.

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. "The Sorrows of Young Werther." The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings, translated by Catherin Hutter. Signet, 2013.

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