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The Bell Jar
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There must be quite a few things a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them. Whenever I’m sad I’m going to die, or so nervous I can’t sleep, or in love with somebody I won’t be seeing for a week, I slump down just so far and then
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― Lady Windermere's Fan
― Lady Windermere's Fan
“Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when you have absolutely nowhere to turn?" Marmeladov’s question came suddenly into his mind "for every man must have somewhere to turn...”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“Despair has its own calms.”
― Dracula
― Dracula
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― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights
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