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Smog: A Novel

by Stephanie Danler (Goodreads Author)

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Sep 04, 2026 06:37PM

“I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, ideal-woman, identity, image, independence, integrity, love, men, realism, romance, self-awareness, self-determination, women

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“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“The rage dissipates along with the love, and all we’re left with is a story.”
― Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

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“I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights

tags: dream, dreamer, fyodor-dostoyevsky, memories, white-nights

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“I want the following word: splendor, splendor is fruit in all its succulence, fruit without sadness. I want vast distances. My savage intuition of myself.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Stream of Life

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