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It was one of those hot, silent nights, when people sit at windows, listening for the thunder which they know will shortly break; when they recall dismal tales of hurricanes and earthquakes; and of lonely...

—Charles Dickens

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I live not in myself, but I becomePortion of that around me: and to meHigh mountains are a feeling, but the humof human cities torture.

—George Gordon

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She pronounced the word married as if her voice caressed it. It seemed a rustling covert leading to enchanted glades.

—Edith Wharton

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But I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures. We none of us expect to be in smooth water all...

—Jane Austen

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Every time when you think,Think about every first 20 seconds of your best Moments in your life time.

—Jerril Thomas

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Werd ich zum Augenblicke sagen:Verweile doch! du bist so schön!Dann magst du mich in Fesseln schlagen,Dann will ich gern zugrunde gehn!

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The Element of Surprise is their in every day,It’s when you wake up.

—Unknown Author

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A new book is still on trial and the amateur is not in a position to judge it. It has to be tested against the great body of Christian thought down the ages and all...

—C.S. Lewis

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She had come to that state where the horror of the universe and its smallness are both visible at the same time—the twilight of the double vision in which so many elderly people are involved....

—E.M. Forster

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And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials and dangers, even so, attended him even in Ithaca, near those he loved.

—Homer

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I certainly am. I do my best to love everybody… I’m hard put, sometimes—baby, it’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that...

—Harper Lee

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And with regard to the resentment of his family, or the indignation of the world, if the former were excited by his marrying me, it would not give me one moment’s concern– and the world...

—Jane Austen

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He felt that he was himself and did not wish to be anyone else. He only wished now to be better than he had been formerly

—Leo Tolstoy

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Considering thus how much honor is awarded to antiquity, and how many times—letting pass infinite other examples—a fragment of an ancient statue has been bought at high price because someone wants to have it near...

—Niccolò Machiavelli

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Such women as you a hundred men always convet – your eyes will only bewitch scores on scores into the unvailing fancy for you – you can only marry one of that many. Out of...

—Thomas Hardy

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The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.

—Benjamin Disraeli

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You spend too much time on ephemeras. The majority of modern books are merely wavering reflections of the present. They disappear very quickly. You should read more old books. The classics. Goethe. What is merely...

—Franz Kafka

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La città di Leonia rifà se stessa tutti i giorni: ogni mattina la popolazione si risveglia tra lenzuola fresche, si lava con saponette appena sgusciate dall’involucro, indossa vestaglie nuove fiammanti, estrae dal più perfezionato frigorifero...

—Italo Calvino

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But she forgot nothing, and he sometimes forgot much too quickly, and, often that same day, encouraged by her composure, would laugh and frolic over the champagne, if friends stopped by. What venom must have...

—Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Change the world so that nothing else is changed.

—Jerril Thomas

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Countless words count less than the silent balance between yin and yang

—Lao Tzu

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«C’ero, prima di nascere? No. Ci sarò dopo la morte? No. Che sono? Un po’ di polvere tenuta insieme da un organismo. Che cosa debbo fare su questa terra? Ho la scelta: o soffrire, o...

—Victor Hugo

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Pearls’ burst out the Snork Maiden excitedly. ‘Could ankle rings be made out of pearls?”I should think they could,’ said Moomintoll. ‘Ankle-rings, and nose-rings and ear-rings and engagement rings…

—Tove Jansson

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Go ye, who rest so placidly upon the sacred Bard who had been young, and when he strung his harp was old, and had never seen the righteous forsaken, or his seed begging their bread;...

—Charles Dickens

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…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.

—Homer

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A man, any man, will go considerably out of his way to pick up a silver dollar; but here are golden words, which the wisest men of antiquity have uttered, and whose worth the wise...

—Henry David Thoreau

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Nobody could catch cold by the sea; nobody wanted appetite by the sea; nobody wanted spirits; nobody wanted strength. Sea air was healing, softening, relaxing — fortifying and bracing — seemingly just as was wanted...

—Jane Austen

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In the deep Mysteries of the world, their belong time, still unexplored and to be explored.

—Jerril Thomas

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He granted its due share to everything equally, drawing from everything only what was beautiful in it, and in the end left himself only the divine Raphael as a teacher. So a great poetic artist,...

—Nikolai Gogol

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As we travel in time and on Equator, we will find our souls and then move in time towards time.

—Unknown Author

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The idea only true or right “meaning” would be that shared by the largest number of the best readers after repeated and careful readings over several generations, different periods, nationalities, moods, degrees of alertness, private...

—C.S. Lewis

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Nature pulls one way and human nature another.

—E.M. Forster

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There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.

—Homer

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No code mattered to her before she broke it, but it came crashing down on her afterwards.” – Atticus Finch

—Harper Lee

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There is no light. I don’t feel like starting my generator. I used to get a big kick out saving people’s lives. Now I wonder what the hell’s the point, since they all have to...

—Joseph Heller

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I’ve never met anyone as kind as you are, except me Mum, o’ course.” –Benjamin Trimmel to Lady Alexandra.

—Lisa M.

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This is fan fiction, but it’s the fan fiction of a classical scholar who knows his stuff, even if he is a touch irreverent and unorthodox.

—Sarah Warning

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Such a women as you a hundred men always convet – your eyes will bewitch scores on scores into an unvailing fancy for you – you can only marry one of that many…The rest may...

—Thomas Hardy

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When sonneteering Wordsworth re-creates the landing of Mary Queen of Scots at the mouth of the Derwent -Dear to the Loves, and to the Graces vowed,The Queen drew back the wimple that she wore- he...

—Brigid Brophy

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The last thing he ever said to me was, ‘Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.

—J.M. Barrie

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If the spark doesn’t come, that’s a pity; but we do not read the classics out of duty or respect, but only out of love.

—Italo Calvino

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Kalbim içimde konuşurken ben susmayı beceremem.

—Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Let them Teach,Let them learn,let them pray,for the world is theirs.

—Jerril Thomas

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Jonah-John-if I had been a Sam, I would have been a Jonah still-not because I have been unlucky for others, but because somebody or something has compelled me to be certain places, at certain times,...

—Kurt Vonnegut

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Checché se ne dica, la rivoluzione francese è il più potente passo del genere umano, dopo l’avvento di Cristo. Incompleta, sia pure; ma sublime. Essa ha trovato il valore di tutte le incognite sociali; ha...

—Victor Hugo

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A man leaves his great house because he’s boredWith life at home, and suddenly returns,Finding himself no happier abroad.He rushes off to his villa driving like mad,You’ld think he’s going to a house on fire,And...

—Titus Lucretius

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Mr Pinch accordingly, after turning over the leaves of his book with as much care as if they were living and highly cherished creatures, made his own selection, and began to read.

—Charles Dickens

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Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you –...

—Homer

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The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity.

—Henry David Thoreau

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Mama, the more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.

—Jane Austen

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