Books to discover: Biography & memoir

David Goggins

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Anne Frank

Θα μπορέσω, ελπίζω, να σου εκμυστηρευτώ ένα σωρό πράγματα, κάτι που δεν έχω κάνει ακόμα ποτέ με κανέναν, κι ελπίζω ότι σ’ εσένα θα βρω ένα μεγάλο στήριγμα.

Niccolò Machiavelli

ALL states, all powers, that have held and hold rule over men have been and are either republics or principalities.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped into a little hollow, ringed all around with trees and flowers.

Art Spiegelman

I went out to see my Father in Rego Park.

Mitch Albom

The last class of my old professor's life took place once a week in his house, by a window in the study where he could watch a small hibiscus plant shed its pink leaves.

Adolf Hitler

I dag ser jeg det som et lykketreff at skjebnen ville at jeg skulle bli født nettopp i Braunau am Inn.

Jonathan Swift

MY FATHER HAD a small estate in Nottinghamshire, 1 was the third of five sons.

Лев Толстой

ALL happy families are alike but an unhappy family is unhappy after its own fashion.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Idle reader, without an oath thou mayest believe, that I wish this book, as the child of my understanding, were the most beautiful, sprightly and discreet production that ever was conceived.

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.

James Joyce

There was no hope for him this time: it was the third stroke.

Miyamoto Musashi

I have named my own Way of the Martial Arts the "Two Heavens, One Style," and after many years of discipline have thought to describe it in a book for the first time.

Benjamin Franklin

MY WRITING.

Anatoly Shcharansky

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Dante Alighieri

THE STORY. Dante, who is still in the Garden of Eden, has just drunk from the river of Good Remembrance (Purg. xxxiii. 126-45).