“I am what you designed me to be.I am your blade. You cannot now complain if you also feel the hurt”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
“Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me.”
― A Tale of Two Cities
― A Tale of Two Cities
“Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
“I was rather literary in college—one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the 'Yale News.'—and now I was going to bring back all such things into my life and become again that most limited of all specialists, the 'well-rounded man.' This isn’t just an epigram—life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
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