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“Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?"
"Yes."
"All like ours?"
"I don't know, but I think so. They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard-tree. Most of them splendid and sound - a few blighted."
"Which do we live on - a splendid one or a blighted one?"
"A blighted one.”
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
"Yes."
"All like ours?"
"I don't know, but I think so. They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard-tree. Most of them splendid and sound - a few blighted."
"Which do we live on - a splendid one or a blighted one?"
"A blighted one.”
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
― Hamlet
― Hamlet
“But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.”
― Jude the Obscure
― Jude the Obscure
“But no one came. Because no one ever does.”
― Jude the Obscure
― Jude the Obscure
“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”
― A Tale of Two Cities
― A Tale of Two Cities
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