“For how imperiously, how coolly, in disregard of all one’s feelings, does the hard, cold, uninteresting course of daily realities move on! Still we must eat, and drink, and sleep, and wake again, - still bargain, buy, sell, ask and answer questions, - pursue, in short, a thousand shadows, though all interest in them be over; the cold, mechanical habit of living remaining, after all vital interest in it has fled.”
― Uncle Tom’s Cabin
― Uncle Tom’s Cabin
“Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.”
― The Rainbow
― The Rainbow
“If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.”
― The Rainbow
― The Rainbow
“Ahora pasa que las tortugas son grandes admiradoras de la velocidad, como es natural. Las esperanzas lo saben, y no se preocupan. Los famas lo saben, y se burlan. Los cronopios lo saben, y cada vez que encuentran una tortuga, sacan la caja de tizas de colores y sobre la redonda pizarra de la tortuga dibujan una golondrina.”
― Cronopios and Famas
― Cronopios and Famas
“No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man”
― Uncle Tom’s Cabin
― Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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