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“His great novel "The Leopard" has certainly enlarged my life – an unusual experience for a life which is well on in its eighties. Reading and rereading it has made me realize how many ways there are of being alive, how many doors there are, close to one, which someone else's touch may open.”

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Philosophy1946–2014

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— Joe Biden

Politics1942

#justice

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— Bram van Velde

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"I am not sorry for having wrought in common, crude material so much; that is the right American stuff; and perhaps hereafter, when my din is done, if anyone is curious to know what that noise was, it …"

— William Dean Howells

Literature1837–1920

#life