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East of Eden
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“No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us. What a great burden of guilt men have!”
“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights
“It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.”
― The Woman Destroyed
― The Woman Destroyed
“All great and precious things are lonely.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
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