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“The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed.”
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
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“We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us... and we drown.”
― The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us... and we drown.”
― The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems
“By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.”
― A Room with a View
― A Room with a View
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