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Hard Times

by Charles Dickens

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""The fixed eye of philosophy, and the rolling one too." People need pleasure as well as work and learning. Don't "be hard on" those who provide it. Also, the underlying idea of why should they be paid less? Visible kindness and love between those of the fair." — Aug 09, 2025 07:54PM

Aug 09, 2025 07:54PM

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“It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

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“...there would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing.”
― Markus Zusak

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“Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.
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― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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“I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

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“Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud...”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

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