“Life is merely terrible; I feel it as few others do. Often — and in my inmost self perhaps all the time — I doubt whether I am a human being.”
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“Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.”
― The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book
― The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book
“I was wrong. I admit it. I believed that there were things which still mattered just because they had mattered once. But I was wrong. Nothing matters but breath, breathing, to know and to be alive.”
― Absalom, Absalom!
― Absalom, Absalom!
“I would not creep along the coast but steer
Out in mid-sea, by guidance of the stars.”
― Middlemarch
Out in mid-sea, by guidance of the stars.”
― Middlemarch
“was trembling”
― Old Yeller
― Old Yeller
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