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              Book cover of Brief Notes on the Art and Manner of Arranging One's Books by Georges Perec
              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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              Of the Abuse of WordsJohn Locke
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              On SolitudeMichel de Montaigne
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              The Horrors and Absurdities of ReligionArthur Schopenhauer
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              Why Look at Animals?John Berger
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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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              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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              The Myth of SisyphusAlbert Camus
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