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adored the rain. It feels refreshing on my face
“Pip is an orphan who is given the chance to create his own self and destiny. Pip's experience also reminds us of the emigrant's experience. Each leaves behind the place he grew up in. Each strikes out on his own. Each is free to create himself anew. Each is also free to make mistakes...”
― Mister Pip
― Mister Pip
“Her experience had been of a kind to teach her, rightly or wrongly, that the doubtful honor of a brief transit through a sorry world hardly called for effusiveness, even when the path was suddenly irradiated at some half-way point by daybeams rich as hers. But her strong sense that neither she nor any human being deserved less than was given, did not blind her to the fact that there were others receiving less who had deserved much more. And in being forced to class herself among the fortunate she did not cease to wonder at the persistence of the unforeseen, when the one to whom such unbroken tranquility had been accorded in the adult stage was she whose youth had seemed to teach that happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.”
― The Mayor of Casterbridge
― The Mayor of Casterbridge
“Life is an oasis which is submerged in the swirling waves of sorrows and agonies.”
― The Mayor of Casterbridge
― The Mayor of Casterbridge
“It was part of his nature to extenuate nothing and live on as one of his own worst accusers.”
― The Mayor of Casterbridge
― The Mayor of Casterbridge
“Dreams are private, she said. And she is right. A dream is a story that no one else will get to hear or read.”
― Mister Pip
― Mister Pip
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