On occasion I find myself getting wrapped up in the miniscule mundane goings on of day to day life or feel myself become jaded to the world around me, or perhaps simply just notice I'm too narrow in my perspective of the world. So I'll use the thoughts of minds far greater than my own to help myself refocus, or regain perspective of the larger picture, a picture where myself and my problems are insignificant and unimportant in comparison.
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Anne Frank's diary always gets me in the mood of that's what you're asking. Other than that, I just read [i]Night[/i]. It was brutal. Not as brutal as I was hoping for, but nevertheless, brutal.