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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I knew that sound
    well too. It was the beating of the old man’s heart. It
    increased my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates the
    soldier into courage.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
    tags: gothic-literature
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to himself, it is probably only insomnia. Many must have it.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, A Clean Well-Lighted Place
    tags: insomnia, sleeplessness
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “His eye was like the eye of a vulture, the eye of one of those terrible birds that watch and wait while an animal dies, and then fall upon the dead body and pull it to pieces to eat it.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Basta ya de fingir, malvados! -aullé-. ¡Confieso que lo maté! ¡Levanten esos tablones! ¡Ahí… ahí! ¡Donde está latiendo su horrible corazón!”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
    tags: corazon, cuento, delator, edgar-allan-por, español, extracto
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    “The one standing in infinite glory is you; the one fallen from grace is also you. What matters is ‘you’ and not the state of you.”
    ― Mò Xiāng Tóngxiù, 天官赐福 [Tiān Guān Cì Fú]
    tags: chinese-novels, tgcf, tian-guan-ci-fu
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    “I am forever your most devoted believer.”
    ― Mò Xiāng Tóngxiù, 天官赐福 [Tiān Guān Cì Fú]
    tags: hua-cheng, san-lang, xie-lian
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    “If you don’t know the meaning to your life, then make me that meaning, and use me as the reason to live.”
    ― 墨香铜臭, 天官赐福 [Tiān Guān Cì Fú]
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    William Shakespeare
    “Look like the innocent flower,
    But be the serpent under it.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Macbeth
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    Jane Austen
    “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: husband, marriage, opening-lines, wife
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    Jane Austen
    “I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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    Jane Austen
    “I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: happiness, laughter, smiles
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    Jane Austen
    “He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: feminism
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    Emily Brontë
    “He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
    ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
    tags: love
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    Emily Brontë
    “Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!”
    ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
    tags: love
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    Emily Brontë
    “I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.”
    ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
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    Emily Brontë
    “Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living. You said I killed you--haunt me then. The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe--I know that ghosts have wandered the earth. Be with me always--take any form--drive me mad. Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! It is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!”
    ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
    tags: catherine, haunting, heathcliff, love, malediction, restlessness
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    Emily Brontë
    “I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.”
    ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
    tags: heart, heartbroken
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    George Orwell
    “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
    ― George Orwell, Animal Farm
    tags: animal-farm
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    George Orwell
    “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
    ― George Orwell, Animal Farm
    tags: animal-farm, animals, closing-line, man, satirical
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    Samuel Beckett
    “Estragon: We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist?

    Vladimir: Yes, yes, we're magicians.”
    ― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
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  • #21
    “But what he hadn’t expected was that when everyone feared him and flattered him, Lan WangJi scolded him right in his face; when everyone spurned him and loathed him, Lan WangJi stood by his side.”
    ― 墨香铜臭, 魔道祖师 [Mó Dào Zǔ Shī]
    tags: love, loyalty, wangxian
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  • #22
    “Suddenly, he felt that the world had no place for him, despite how large it was.”
    ― 墨香铜臭, 魔道祖师 [Mó Dào Zǔ Shī]
    tags: oneself, wei-wuxian, world
    191 likes

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  • #23
    “The people finally realized what was going on. It seemed that whenever someone tried to argue with Wei WuXian, Lan WangJi would seal their lips.”
    ― 墨香铜臭, 魔道祖师 [Mó Dào Zǔ Shī]
    tags: lan-wangji, wei-wuxian
    77 likes



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