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Blake: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)

by William Blake

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The Red and the Black

by Stendhal

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“If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”
― Emily Jane Brontë , Wuthering Heights

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“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

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“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: ecstasy, happiness, nature

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“Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

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“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

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