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Hemingway, Ernest. Men at War: The Best War Stories of All Time. Crown Publishers, 1942, introduction.

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Keller, Helen. Helen Keller: Selected Writings, edited by Kim E. Nielsen. New York University Press, 2005, pt. 2, ch. 16. Originally from Letter to an English-Woman-Suffragist published in The Manchester (England) Advertiser, 3 Mar. 1911.

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Yamamoto, Tsunemomo. 葉隠 [Hagakure]. c. 1716.

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Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. London: Richard Bentley/New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851, ch. 1.

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Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick or, The Whale. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 1.

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of this world justifies.

Rudyard Kipling

The Phantom Rickshaw

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Kipling, Rudyard. "The Phantom 'Rickshaw." The Phantom 'Rickshaw & other Eerie Tales. Prayagraj: A. H. Wheeler & Co., 1888.

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Kipling, Rudyard. "The Phantom 'Rickshaw." The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories. Dover Publications, 2013.

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Alexie, Sherman. Interviewed by Diane Thiel. Crossroads: The Journal of the Poetry Society of America, Spring 2004.

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Swift, Jonathan. The Conduct of the Allies and of the Late Ministry in Beginning and Carrying on the Present War. London: John Morphew, 1711.

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Swift, Jonathan. "The Conduct of the Allies and of the Late Ministry in Beginning and Carrying on the Present War." Jonathan Swift: Major Works, edited by Angus Ross and David Woolley. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Seneca the Younger. Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium [Moral Letters to Lucilius]. c. 65 AD.

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Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. Letters on Ethics, translated by Margaret Graver and A. A. Long. University of Chicago Press, 2017.

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Keats, John. Letter to Benjamin Bailey. 22 Nov. 1817.

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Keats, John. "Benjamin Bailey 22 November 1817." John Keats: Selected Letters, edited by John Barnard. Penguin Classics, 2015.

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Macaulay, Thomas Babington. "Southey's Colloquies." Edinburgh Review, Jan. 1830.

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Baldwin, James. "As Much Truth As One Can Bear." The New York Times, 14 Jan. 1962.

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Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. London: Richard Bentley/New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851, ch. 41.

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Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick or, The Whale. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 41.

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Smith, Patti. Quoted in National Book Award for Patti Smith, written by Julie Bosman. New York Times, 17 Nov. 2010, www.nytimes.com/2010/11/18/books/18awards.html

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Twain, Mark. "The Lowest Animal." Letters from the Earth. Harper & Row, 1962.

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Twain, Mark. "The Lowest Animal." Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings, edited by Bernard DeVoto. Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2004.

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Doyle, Arthur Conan. "A Study in Scarlet." Beeton's Christmas Annual. London: Ward Lock & Co., 1887.

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Doyle, Arthur Conan. A Study in Scarlet. The Sherlock Holmes Collector's Library. Detective Fiction, 2012, pt. 2, ch. 7.

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Shaw, George Bernard. Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant. 1898, vol. 2, preface.

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Shaw, George Bernard. Plays Pleasant. Penguin, 2003, preface.

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Morrison, Toni. "No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear." The Nation: 150th Anniversary Special, 23 Mar. 2015.

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Foucault, Michel. Surveiller et punir: Naissance de la prison [Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison]. Gallimard, 1975.

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Sontag, Susan "Against Interpretation." Against Interpretation. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966.

I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

Émile Zola

The Ladies' Paradise

Originally from Emile Zola's book, but quoted in letter from Van Gogh.

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Zola, Émile. "Au Bonheur de Dames [The Ladies' Paradise]." Gil Blas, 17 Dec. 1882 - 1 Mar. 1883.

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Zola, Émile. The Ladies' Paradise. Oxford University Press, 2008.