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  "textContent": "\"It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.\" So ends the journey of Phillip Carey, the tortured, haunted, often pitiful, often frustrating protagonist of William Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage. And it's a hell of an emotional wringer of a journey, following [...]",
  "title": "“Of Human Bondage” by W. Somerset Maugham is one of the most emotionally powerful and heartbreaking books I’ve ever read"
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