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For I have known them all already, known them 
all—
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, 
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons; 
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room. 
So how should I presume?

Out of Africa

Karen Blixen

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The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

Albert Camus

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I heed not that my earthly lot 
Hath little of Earth in it, 
That years of love have been forgot 
In the hatred of a minute: 
I mourn not that the desolate 
Are happier, sweet, than I, 
But that you sorrow for my fate 
Who am a passer-by.

The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso

Dante Alighieri

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Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

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This is my story. Scratch a Jew and you've got a story. If you don't like elaborate picaresques full of unlikely events and tortuous explanations, steer clear of the Jews. If you want things to be straightforward, find someone else to listen to. You might even get to say something yourself. How do we begin a sentence?
"Listen…"

Satantango

László Krasznahorkai

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Đại viết thệ, thệ viết viễn, viễn viết phản. Cố đạo đại, thiên đại, địa đại, nhân diệc đại. Vực trung hữu tứ đại, nhi nhân cư kì nhất yên. Nhân pháp địa, địa pháp thiên, thiên pháp đạo, đạo pháp tự nhiên.

To be great is to go on,
To go on is to be far,
To be far is to return.
Hence, Tao is great,
Heaven is great,
Earth is great,
King is great.
Thus, the king is one of the great four in the Universe.
Man follows the ways of the Earth,
The Earth follows the ways of Heaven,
Heaven follows the ways of Tao,
Tao follows its own ways.