books books books!

welcome to my library :)
I usually also use storygraph to keep track of things




novels:

Ambiguous Adventure
Cheikh Hamidou Kane
1961

"I come here to say this to you: I, the Most Royal Lady, do not like the foreign school. I detest it. My opinion, nevertheless, is that we should send our children there."

One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez
1967

"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendìa was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."

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short story/ies:

101 Zen Stories
adapted by Nyogen Senzaki and Paul Reps

Nan-in served tea. He filled the cup of his host and kept pouring.
The professor looked at the overflowing tea, and could no more contain himself.

"It's full to the brim! It can hold no more!"
"Like this cup," said Nan-in, "you are full of your opinions and conjectures.
How can I teach you Zen, if you first don't empty your cup?"

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theatre:

Macbeth
William Shakespeare
~1606

"Be this the whetstone of your sword. Let grief / Convert to anger. Blunt not the heart; enrage it."

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non-fiction:

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