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“So tomorrow we disappear into the unknown. This account I am transmitting down the river by canoe, and it may be our last word to those who are interested in our fate.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World
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― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five
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― Woody Allen
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― Jane Austen, Emma
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