The Old Man and the Sea - 1951
Ernest Hemingway
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"No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols
arrived at beforehand and stuck in... I tried to make a real
old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks.
But if I made them good and true enough they would mean
many things".

Waiting For Godot - 1953
Samuel Beckett
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"What are we doing here?"

Nature - 1836
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"An all-encompassing divine entity inherently known to us in our
unfettered innocence."