10 000+ Insightful Quotes from Great Books

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The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
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The Big Picture: On...
by Sean Carroll
Damage
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Damage
by Josephine Hart
Balthasar's Odyssey
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Balthasar's Odyssey
by Amin Maalouf
Coast
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Coast
by Jay McLean
Snakes and Earrings
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Snakes and Earrings
by Hitomi Kanehara
Brie Learns the Art of Submission: Submissive Training Center
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Brie Learns the Art...
by Red Phoenix
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
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The Origin of Consci...
by Julian Jaynes
A Hope Undaunted
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A Hope Undaunted
by Julie Lessman
The Notebooks of Lazarus Long
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The Notebooks of Laz...
by Robert A. Heinlein
The Purge of Babylon
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The Purge of Babylon
by Sam Sisavath
The Next Together
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The Next Together
by Lauren James
Vitro
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Vitro
by Jessica Khoury
Abel
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Abel
by Elizabeth Reyes
The Drowning Girl
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The Drowning Girl
by Caitlín R. Kiernan
Nice is Just a Place in France: How to Win at Basically Everything
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More Than Water
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More Than Water
by Renee Ericson
The Unknown Soldier
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The Unknown Soldier
by Väinö Linna
Oral History
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Oral History
by Lee Smith
A Feast of Snakes
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A Feast of Snakes
by Harry Crews
North! or Be Eaten
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North! or Be Eaten
by Andrew Peterson
Les Misérables: Volume Two
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Les Misérables: Volu...
by Victor Hugo
Butterfly Weeds
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Butterfly Weeds
by Laura Miller
The Eustace Diamonds
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The Eustace Diamonds
by Anthony Trollope
Wicked Gentlemen
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Wicked Gentlemen
by Ginn Hale
Young Love Murder
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Young Love Murder
by April Brookshire
Mating
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Mating
by Norman Rush
Far North
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Far North
by Marcel Theroux
The Vanishing Girl
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The Vanishing Girl
by Laura Thalassa
America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It
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America Alone: The E...
by Mark Steyn
Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream
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Songs of the Doomed:...
by Hunter S. Thompson
The Diving Pool: Three Novellas
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The Diving Pool: Thr...
by Yōko Ogawa
Bend Sinister
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Bend Sinister
by Vladimir Nabokov
The Endearment
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The Endearment
by LaVyrle Spencer
I, Zombie
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I, Zombie
by Hugh Howey
Love's Suicide
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Love's Suicide
by Jennifer Foor
Promise at Dawn
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Promise at Dawn
by Romain Gary
The Greatest Miracle in the World
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The Greatest Miracle...
by Og Mandino
What Happened to Lani Garver
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What Happened to Lan...
by Carol Plum-Ucci
Running for My Life: One Lost Boy's Journey from the Killing Fields of Sudan to the Olympic Games
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Sleep, Pale Sister
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Sleep, Pale Sister
by Joanne Harris
Bitter Frost
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Bitter Frost
by Kailin Gow
Essays
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Essays
by Francis Bacon
Uther
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Uther
by Jack Whyte
Just in Case
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Just in Case
by Meg Rosoff
Operation Shylock: A Confession
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Operation Shylock: A...
by Philip Roth
The Fallen
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The Fallen
by Charlie Higson
The Names
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The Names
by Don DeLillo
Shardik
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Shardik
by Richard Adams
The Anybodies
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The Ladies of Missalonghi
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The Ladies of Missal...
by Colleen McCullough
The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years
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The Day Lasts More T...
by Chingiz Aitmatov
Residence on Earth
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Residence on Earth
by Pablo Neruda
Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History
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Nathaniel's Nutmeg:...
by Giles Milton
Sashenka
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Sashenka
by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Never to Sleep
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Never to Sleep
by Rachel Vincent
Sun Stand Still: What Happens When You Dare to Ask God for the Impossible
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Sun Stand Still: Wha...
by Steven Furtick
The Storyteller
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The Storyteller
by Mario Vargas Llosa
All He Desires
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All He Desires
by C.C. Gibbs
How I Taught My Grandmother to Read and Other Stories
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How I Taught My Gran...
by Sudha Murty
Corps Security: The Series
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Corps Security: The...
by Harper Sloan