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Thomas Hardy quote: "It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in a..."
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in a language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs. Thomas Hardy
Jane Austen quote: "A weak spirit which is always open to persuasion, first one..."
A weak spirit which is always open to persuasion, first one way and then the other, can never be relied upon. Jane Austen
There are conditions under which the most majestic person is obliged to sneeze, and our emotions are liable to be acted on in the same incongruous manner. George Eliot
The waves broke and spread their waters swiftly over the shore. One after another they massed themselves and fell; the spray tossed itself back with the energy of their fall. The waves were steeped deep-blue save for a pattern of diamond-pointed light on their backs which rippled as the backs of great horses ripple with muscles as they move. The waves fell; withdrew and fell again, like the thud of a great beast stamping. Virginia Woolf
We have such numerous interests in our lives that it is not uncommon, on a single occasion, for the foundations of a happiness that does not yet exist to be laid down alongside the intensification of a grief from which we are still suffering. Marcel Proust
The terms which, in his inmost heart, each man knows. As I know mine. As all know. For that is the truth of it? that we all know, God, that we know, that we know, we know, we know. Saul Bellow
Elizabeth Gaskell quote: "There is always a pleasure in unravelling a mystery, in..."
There is always a pleasure in unravelling a mystery, in catching at the gossamer clue which will guide to certainty. Elizabeth Gaskell
Arthur Conan Doyle quote: "Problems may be solved in the study which have baffled all..."
Problems may be solved in the study which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the aid of their senses. Arthur Conan Doyle
Honore de Balzac quote: "I belong to the opposition party, which is called life."
I belong to the opposition party, which is called life. Honore de Balzac
Not a thousand years ago, it was illegal to teach a slave to read. Not a thousand years ago, the Supreme Court decided that separate could not be equal. And today, as we sit here, no one is learning anything in this country. You see a nation which is the leader of the rest of the world, that had to pay the price of that ticket, and the price of that ticket is we're sitting in the most illiterate nation in the world. THE MOST ILLITERATE NATION IN THE WORLD. A monument to illiteracy. And... James Baldwin
no biography of his existed in German even though sales of his books were rising in Germany as well as the rest of Europe and even in the United States, which likes vanished writers (vanished writers or millionaire writers) or the legend of vanished writer? Roberto Bolano
It is an illusion that youth is happy: an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched, for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled into them, and each time they come into contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded... they must discover for themselves that all they have read and been been told [by their elders] are lies, lies, lies; and each discovery is another nail driven into the body of the cross of life. W. Somerset Maugham
Matt Merton comes back and explains that last week's show on suicide, in which the parents watched a reenactment of their son's suicide, was a healing process for the parents, then shows a video of the parents admitting it was a healing process. ("Sea Oak") George Saunders
Listen to th' wind wutherin' round the house," she said. "You could bare stand up on the moor if you was out on it tonight."Mary did not know what "wutherin'" meant until she listened, and then she understood. It must mean that hollow shuddering sort of roar which rushed round and round the house, as if the giant no one could see were buffeting it and beating at the walls and windows to try to break in. But one knew he could not get in, and somehow it made one feel very safe and warm inside a... Frances Hodgson Burnett
After a heavy snowfall one night in early December the snow formed a thick quilt from which the old man's face emerged like a sleeping child's above an eiderdown. Jim told himself that he never moved because he was warm under the snow. J. G. Ballard

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