“To talk to him was like listening to the tinkling of a worn-out musical box.”
― 1984
― 1984
“His life incarnated a sense of sheer human possibility ... inescapably, there is something that takes the breath away.”
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“In her dealings with man, destiny never closed her accounts.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
“To turn his head and look at her would have been inconceivable folly. With hands locked together, invisible among the press of bodies, they stared steadily in front of them, and instead of the eyes of the girl, the eyes of the aged prisoner gazed mournfully at Winston out of nests of hair.”
― 1984
― 1984
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