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by Mary Renault
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Reading for the 2nd time
read in March 2026
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(page 91 of 400)
""The book had looked done for, too; but it was still there." 😩😩" — May 14, 2026 08:20AM
""The book had looked done for, too; but it was still there." 😩😩" — May 14, 2026 08:20AM
“These too are of a burning color--not orange, not gold, but if pure gold were liquid and could raise a cream, that golden cream might be like the color of the poppies.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe.
To feel it so like myself, indeed, so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still. For all to be accomplished, for me to feel less lonely, all that remained to hope was that on the day of my execution there should be a huge crowd of spectators and that they should greet me with howls of execration.”
― The Stranger
To feel it so like myself, indeed, so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still. For all to be accomplished, for me to feel less lonely, all that remained to hope was that on the day of my execution there should be a huge crowd of spectators and that they should greet me with howls of execration.”
― The Stranger
“It makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful shirts before.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason...”
― Venus in Furs
― Venus in Furs
“I'll want to hear,' Samuel said. 'I eat stories like grapes.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
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