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Sette storie gotiche

by Isak Dinesen

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“Far better to dare mighty things and fail mightily than to never dare at all.”
― Stephanie Thornton, The Secret History: A Novel of Empress Theodora

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“Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.”
― Sue Grafton

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“...where there is a disposition to dislike, a motive will never be wanting”
― Jane Austen, Lady Susan

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“God doesn't protect people from knives, sweetheart. That's why God gave us other people, so we can protect each other.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

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“Besides,'' she said, "it was not a hero I was thinking of. If anybody, it was Catherine Vernon." "Whom you don't like. These women, who step out of their sphere, they may do much to be respected, they may be of great use; but " "You mean that men don't like them," said Hester, with a smile; " but then women do; and, after all, we are the half of creation — or more.”
― Mrs. Oliphant, Hester

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