Layla
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“If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.”
― All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays
― All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays
“If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.”
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“Thus we never see the true state of our condition till it is illustrated to us by its contraries, nor know how to value what we enjoy, but by the want of it.”
― Robinson Crusoe
― Robinson Crusoe
“I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“I used to think there was such a thing as emptiness, that there were places in the world one could go and be alone. This, I think, is still true, but the error in my reasoning was to assume that alone was somewhere you could go, rather than somewhere you had to be left.”
― Our Wives Under the Sea
― Our Wives Under the Sea
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