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Trying to find a job in cinema/theaters or as an Opera usherette... wish me good luck!

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please do 10 classic recs

There are many ways I could answer this: I could either name 10 classics I think most people could easily enjoy — but let's be frank, there are already tons of lists on Pinterest for that —, or recommend you 10 classics I'm particularly fond of. But I'll go with the second, for one it's much easier, and also perhaps you'll discover some good literature you haven't yet read and find out we have common literary taste.

The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky.

The Carnivorous Lamb, Agustin Gomez-Arcos.

The Iliad, Homer.

Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë.

Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert.

The Collected Poems of T.S Eliot.

The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson.

The Oresteian Trilogy, Aeschylus.

Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov.

I sincerely hope you'll enjoy these, and if you happen to have already read them all, don't hesitate to tell me and I'll recommend you some more.

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Cyril Connolly, from “The Unquiet Grave: A Word Cycle by Palinurus”, originally published c. 1944.

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T. S Eliot, “The Love Song of Saint Sebastian”

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Fyodor Dostoevsky, from “The Dream of a Ridiculous Man,” tr. Alan Myers.

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Fyodor Dostoevsky, from “The Dream of a Ridiculous Man,” tr. Alan Myers.

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Fyodor Dostoevsky, from “The Dream of a Ridiculous Man,” tr. Alan Myers.

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You don't understand, I want — no, I need one of these. My life will only be complete when I'll have a big, dramatic wooden desk.

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Fyodor Dostoevsky, from “The Dream of a Ridiculous Man,” tr. Alan Myers.

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Fyodor Dostoevsky, from “The Dream of a Ridiculous Man,” tr. Alan Myers.

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when madeline miller wrote “he is half of my soul, as the poets say" and when emily brontë wrote “do not leave me in this abyss! oh god it is unutterable! i cannot live without my life! i cannot live without my soul!" and when i started feeling this unspeakable longing for what seems to be a romantic connection just last night but my soul is whole in itself and seeks nothing more than the gentleness found in the presence of another.

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whoever knows me knows that in order to understand who i am you have to keep in mind that passage that anais nin wrote “i have always been tormented by the image of multiplicity of selves. some day i call it richness and other day i see it as a disease" and that one from virginia woolf “i am not one and simple, but complex and many" and that one walt whitman gave us “do i contradict myself? very well then i contradict myself. (i am large, i contain multitude)” and make peace with that as much as I had to in order to love myself properly.

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Pierre Corneille, from “The Cid”, tr. A.S. Kline, 2007

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Constantine P. Cavafy, from “Modern Greek Poetry; ‘The Bandaged Shoulder’”, tr. Kimon Friar.

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T. S. Eliot, from “Collected Poems: 1909-1962; The Waste Land”, originally published c. 1963.

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T. S. Eliot, from “Collected Poems: 1909-1962; The Waste Land”, originally published c. 1963.

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Thomas Mann, from “Death in Venice”, originally published c. 1912.