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“The present is not so glorious but that I should wish to dwell a little in the past.”
― The Scarlet Pimpernel
― The Scarlet Pimpernel
“They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.”
― The Things They Carried
― The Things They Carried
“She looks very virtuous and very melancholy."
"Virtue is like the precious odors, most fragrant when it is crushed.”
― The Scarlet Pimpernel
"Virtue is like the precious odors, most fragrant when it is crushed.”
― The Scarlet Pimpernel
“Maybe we are all cabinets of wonders.”
― The Invention of Hugo Cabret
― The Invention of Hugo Cabret
“Being six feet off the ground does give one a sense of superiority.”
― The Thief
― The Thief
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