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Summer Reading
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"He knows not his
own strength
that hath not met adversity."--Francis Bacon
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Night
by Elie Wiesel
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"Never
shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all
eternity, of the desire to live."
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A Separate Peace
by: John Knowles
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"I never killed anybody and I never
developed an
intense level of hatred for the enemy. Because my war ended
before
I ever put on a uniform; I was on active duty all my time at school; I
killed my enemy there."
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Siddhartha
by: Herman Hesse
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"If I know what
love is, it
is because of you."
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Julius Caesar
by: William
Shakespeare
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"Cowards die many times before their
deaths; the
valiant never taste of death but once."
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Antigone
by: Sophocles
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"Anarchy--show me a greater crime in all
the earth!
She, she destroys cities, rips up houses, breaks the ranks of spearmen
into headlong rout. But the ones who last it out, the great mass
of them owe their lives to discipline."
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A Doll's House
by: Henrik Ibsen
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"I have been performing tricks on you,
Torvald.
That's how I've survived. You wanted it like that. You and
Papa have done me a great wrong. It's because of you I've made nothing
of my life."
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Ethan Frome
by: Edith Wharton
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"Almost everybody in the neighborhood had
'troubles,'
frankly localized and specified; but only the chosen had
'complications.'
To have them was in itself a distinction, though it was also, in most
cases,
a death warrant."
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The Count of Monte Cristo
by: Alexandre Dumas
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"Only a man who has felt ultimate despair
is capable
of feeling ultimate bliss."
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The Pearl
by: John Steinbeck
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"But the pearls were accidents, and the
finding of
one was luck, a little pat on the back by God or the gods or both."
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The Old Man and the Sea
by: Ernest Hemingway
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"A man can be destroyed but not defeated."
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Lord of the Flies
by: William Golding
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"This is our island. It's a good
island.
Until the grown-ups come to fetch us we'll have fun."
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Nonfiction
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"If you want to write what the world is
about, you
have to write details. . . real life is in the dishes. Real life
is pushing strollers up the street, folding T-shirts the alarm clock
going
off early and you dropping into bed exhausted every night. That's
real life."--Anna Quindlen
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Poetry
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"More and more mankind will discover that
we have
to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain
us."--Matthew
Arnold
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The King Arthur Legends
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"The rain may never fall till after
sundown.
By eight the morning fog must disappear. In short, there's simply
not a more congenial spot for happy ever-aftering than here in Camelot."
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