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Laurus

by Eugene Vodolazkin

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Jun 30, 2026 02:51PM

“To see a Woman you love in Distress; to be unable to relieve her, and at the same Time to reflect that you have brought her into this Situation, is, perhaps, a Curse of which no Imagination can represent the Horrors to those who have not felt it.”
― Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

tags: distress, love

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“Some people make tunes, but it is lines that run like moving messages through my head. Whatever else I am saying and doing often has no bearing on this inner, verbal life.”
― Susan Hill, The Boy Who Taught the Beekeeper to Read: and Other Stories

tags: music, poetry, words

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“Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.”
― Toni Morrison, The Nobel Lecture in Literature, 1993

tags: story, writing

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“But work used to be the lot of every man, and now it is rapidly becoming an aristocratic privilege. Men nowadays are more often paid not to work.”
― Colleen McCullough, A Creed for the Third Millennium

tags: privilege, society, work

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