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“Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you've lost that, you've lost everything.”
― The Woman Destroyed
― The Woman Destroyed
“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
“If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don't keer if you die at dusk. It's so many people never seen de light at all.”
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
“The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.”
― The Awakening
― The Awakening
“The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
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