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"I am a sick man . . . I am a spiteful man."
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Notes from Underground
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“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.”
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
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Anna Karenina
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“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
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1984
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"It was a pleasure to burn."
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Fahrenheit 451
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"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
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Pride and Prejudice
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"Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested."
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The Trial
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“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.”
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The Catcher in the Rye
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"The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new."
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Murphy
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"Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show."
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David Copperfield
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"Mother died today."
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The Stranger
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"Somewhere in la Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago, one of those who has a lance and ancient shield on a shelf and keeps a skinny nag and a greyhound for racing."
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Don Quixote
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"All this happened, more or less."
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Slaughterhouse-Five
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Answer
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"For a long time, I went to bed early."
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Swann's Way
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"There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it."
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The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
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"It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York."
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The Bell Jar
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"He—for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it—was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters."
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Orlando
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"Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed."
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Ulysses
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"Call me Ishmael."
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Moby Dick
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"This morning Rino telephoned. I thought he wanted money again and I was ready to say no. But that was not the reason for the phone call: his mother was gone."
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My Brilliant Friend
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"We slept in what had once been the gymnasium."
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The Handmaid's Tale
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"Early in the morning, late in the century, Cricklewood Broadway. At 0627 hours on January 1, 1975, Alfred Archibald Jones was dressed in corduroy and sat in a fume-filled Cavalier Musketeer Estate facedown on the steering wheel, hoping judgement would not be too heavy upon him."
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White Teeth
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"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into an enormous insect."
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The Metamorphosis
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"To the worm who first gnawed on the cold flesh of my corpse, I dedicate with fond remembrance these Posthumous Memoirs"
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The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas
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"Snowman wakes before dawn."
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Oryx and Crake
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"‘Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again."
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Rebecca
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