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    Brief Notes on the Art and Manner of Arranging One's BooksGeorges Perec
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    One Swallow Does Not Make a SummerAristotle
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    Steps Towards a Small Theory of the VisibleJohn Berger
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    The Decay of LyingOscar Wilde
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    The Narrative of Trajan's ColumnItalo Calvino
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    The Power of WordsSimone Weil
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    An Image of AfricaChinua Achebe
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    NationalismRabindranath Tagore
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    Night WalksCharles Dickens
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    Some Thoughts on the Common ToadGeorge Orwell
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    The Painter of Modern LifeCharles-Pierre Baudelaire
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    The Perpetual Race of Achilles and the TortoiseJorge Luis Borges
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    We Will All Go Down Fighting to the EndWinston Churchill
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    An Apology for IdlersRobert Louis Stevenson
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    Decline of the English MurderGeorge Orwell
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    On SolitudeMichel de Montaigne
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    A ConfessionLeo Tolstoy
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    Books v. CigarettesGeorge Orwell
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    Days of ReadingMarcel Proust
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    Human HappinessBlaise Pascal
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    Man Alone with HimselfFriedrich Nietzsche
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    NatureRalph Emerson
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    The Fastidious AssassinsAlbert Camus
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    Useful Work v. Useless ToilWilliam Morris
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    How to Achieve True GreatnessBaldesar Castiglione
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    Of EmpireFrancis Bacon
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    The City of LadiesChristine de Pizan
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    Urne-BurialThomas Browne
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    Where I Lived, and What I Lived ForHenry David Thoreau
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    A Room of One's OwnVirginia Woolf
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