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Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism

by Sebastian Smee

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The Oxford Handbook of The American Musical

by Raymond Knapp

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Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton

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When you are in the middle of a story it isn’t a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a wreckage of shattered glass and splintered wood; like a house in a whirlwind, or else a boat crushed by the icebergs or ...more

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“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

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“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world”
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“To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.”
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