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“"Man needs only to express his thoughts, and the world will take shape" - Heinrich Heine”

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Seeking a woman, 18 to 99
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche

Underground

Haruki Murakami

Personal accounts of the infamous Sarin attack.

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The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics)

The Complete Poems

Christina Rossetti, R. W. Crump, Betty S. Flowers

My favorite poet of the bittersweet.

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Journal 1940-1950 (French Edition)

Journal 1940-1950

Philippe Jullian

An excellent and incisive writer who specialized in the Fin De Siecle period of art history. He also went to a party once in drag (in Victorian-esque garb, mind you). My hero.

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Unstrung Harp, Or, Mr Earbrass Writes a Novel

Unstrung Harp, Or, Mr Earbrass Writes a Novel

Edward Gorey

For all his absurd moments, Gorey was just as capable as depicting the melancholy and anguish of the creative life in his own twisted and quirky way. I relate to Mr. Earbrass all too well.

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The Stranger (Everyman's Library)

The Stranger

Albert Camus, Matthew Ward

The character as mirror.

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