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Love in a Fallen City

by Eileen Chang

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Jun 06, 2026 05:17PM

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The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde

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ghost at a valuation.

Valuation of a ghost - capitalism meets the spirit world of old

Keely’s Quotes

“Take for yourself what you can, and don't be ruled by others; to belong to oneself - the whole savour of life lies in that.”
― Ivan Turgenev, Spring Torrents

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“Teach her to reject likeability. Her job is not to make herself likeable, her job is to be her full self, a self that is honest and aware of the equal humanity of other people.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

tags: good-girl

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“That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!”
― Connie Willis, Passage

tags: death, life, literature, messages

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“...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

tags: life, memory, pain, pleasure

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“This rose is not so fragrant as a summer flower, but it has stood through hardships none of them could bear: the cold rain of winter has sufficed to nourish it, and its faint sun to warm it; the bleak winds have not blanched it, or broken its stem, and the keen frost has not blighted it... It is still fresh and blooming as a flower can be, with the cold snow even now on its petals.— Will you have it?”
― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

tags: love

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