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Crime&Punishment
“I don’t believe in a future life,” said Raskolnikov.
Svidrigailov sat lost in thought.
“And what if there are only spiders there, or something of that sort,” he said suddenly.
-Dostoyevsky
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Turgenev
You should be singing, if you know how to, you should be singing aloud. And if you can’t - then take off your hat and throw back your head and smile at the stars. They’re all watching you, only you. That’s all the stars do.
- On the Eve
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A Supermarket in California
Where are we going, Walt Whitman? The doors close in an hour. Which way does your beard point tonight?
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The Flute Dream
“There is no way back,” he said in a sincere and friendly way. “You must always move forward if you want to fathom the world. You’ve already had the best and most beautiful from the girl with the brown eyes, and the farther you are from her, the more beautiful and better it will become. “
-Hesse
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The Remains of the Day
"'Haven't you ever had a suspicion? The smallest suspicion that Herr Hitler, through our dear friend Herr Ribbentrop, has been manoeuvring his lordship like a pawn, just as easily as he manoeuvres any of his other pawns back in Berlin?'
'I'm sorry sir, I'm afraid I have not noticed any such developent.'
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Girl With A Pearl Earring
“Take care to remain yourself,” he had warned me so long ago. I wondered if I had done so. It was not always easy to know.
#tracychevalier
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Gertrude, Herman Hesse
However eagerly I sought salvation, oblivion and deliverance in many other ways, however much I thirsted for God, understanding and peace, I always found them in music alone.
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One of my Favorite Quotes
“’I am not an angel,’ I asserted; ‘and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me-for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.’”
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Let The Right One In
Her pupils were so large that they almost filled the whole iris, the lights from the building reflected in the black surface and it looked like she had a distant city in her head.
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Sylvia Plath
First of all I'd like to say Hello! to this wonderful community that I just found.
This is a quote from Sylvia Plath's Ocean 1212-W. The first time I read it I got a bit misty-eyed...It's about how she views the first nine years of her life in relation to her father's death. When you lose a parent at such a young age, you are unable to process ( Read more... )