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The Waves

by Virginia Woolf

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"Why did I try to read while tipsy. Ok stuff about life and growing older and time passing and not being able to escape it but holding onto moments while you can… culmination of their perspectives in a sense" — May 31, 2026 09:54PM

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The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)

by Liu Cixin (Goodreads Author)

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The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

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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 ...more

Maija’s Quotes

“manuscripts don't burn" - "(рукописи не горят)”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

tags: censorship

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“Despair has its own calms.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

tags: dracula

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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

tags: love

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“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: elizabeth-bennet, jane-austen

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“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.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: romantic

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