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I began reading literature again: Solzhenitsyn’s Cancer Ward, B. S. Johnson’s The Unfortunates, Tolstoy’s Ivan Ilyich, Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos, Woolf, Kafka, Montaigne, Frost, Greville, memoirs of cancer patients—anything by anyone who had ever written about mortality.
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
John Updike’s The Centaur,
Haruki Murakami • Norwegian Wood
That, finally, is the life-changing message of On Writing Well: Simplify your language and thereby find your humanity.
William Zinsser • Writing Places: The Life Journey of a Writer and Teacher
Experts are not difficult to find in Provence. All the bars I know are full of them, but the trick is to meet an expert whose knowledge is equal to his enthusiasm.
Peter Mayle • Encore Provence: New Adventures in the South of France (Vintage Departures)
“But man is not made for defeat,” he said. “A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Ernest Hemingway • The Old Man and the Sea
Light Over Liskeard: From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
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déjà fatigué de ses liaisons. Comme cela arrivait presque toujours, ses aventures tournaient au drame. Ses maîtresses s'attachaient trop à lui. Il avait la beauté, la force, le prestige, l'aventure. Dans la pauvre existence des filles qu'il rencontrait, il passait comme un demi-dieu. Mais lui, il ne pouvait leur donner que sa sensualité et une cama
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