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“She cannot receive any power from me greater than she now has, which consists in her own purity and innocence of heart.”
― The Snow Queen
― The Snow Queen
“He that feareth is a slave, were he never so rich, were he never so powerful. But he that is without fear is king of all the world. Though hast my sword. Strike. Death shall be a sweet rest to me. Thraldom, not death, should terrify me.”
― The Worm Ouroboros
― The Worm Ouroboros
“Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied sould of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech. In the same way to say a little is often to tell more than to say.”
― Far From the Madding Crowd
― Far From the Madding Crowd
“We are betrayed by what is false within”
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“She was in person full-limbed and somewhat heavy; without ruddiness, as without pallor; and soft to the touch as a cloud. To see her hair was to fancy that a whole winter did not contain darkness enough to form its shadow: it closed over her forehead like nightfall extinguishing the western glow.”
― The Return of the Native
― The Return of the Native
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