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A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)

by George R.R. Martin

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Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

by Mikki Kendall (欧宝娱乐 Author)

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The Flowers of Evil

by Charles Baudelaire

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“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”
― Emily Dickinson

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“This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

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“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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“Forever is composed of nows.”
― Emily Dickinson

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“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Complete Prose Works Of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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