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read in April 2020
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One of the last chapters of The Mirror and the Light is called ‘Magnificence’, and at the end of it, Thomas Cromwell is finally arrested and taken to the Tower. But in it, he is also made Earl of Essex: he both ascends the zenith of his career, and p
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"I keep thinking, if his wife were still around, she’d be putting Cromwell in his place." — Apr 11, 2020 06:30AM
"I keep thinking, if his wife were still around, she’d be putting Cromwell in his place." — Apr 11, 2020 06:30AM
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by Emily Brontë
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Reading for the 3rd time
read in September 2020
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one day i'll write a proper PROPER review for this. but seeing as it's my favourite classic, i don't think i'll ever do it justice. to be honest, my dissertation probably won't either. but! this time i read it alongside a new fully scholar annotated
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"Heathcliff in his villain era is THE best part of this book. I don’t feel people quite understand how UNMATCHED these levels are of unhinged, sadistic, tyrannical behaviour. Stick him in a room with any other 19th century villain and he is winning all day long. Just pure Machiavellian delight *chef’s kiss*" — Feb 06, 2026 01:12PM
"Heathcliff in his villain era is THE best part of this book. I don’t feel people quite understand how UNMATCHED these levels are of unhinged, sadistic, tyrannical behaviour. Stick him in a room with any other 19th century villain and he is winning all day long. Just pure Machiavellian delight *chef’s kiss*" — Feb 06, 2026 01:12PM
“A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.”
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“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”
― The Second World War: Alone
― The Second World War: Alone
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
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“May she wake in torment!" he cried, with frightful vehemence, stamping his foot, and groaning in a sudden paroxysm of ungovernable passion. "Why, she's a liar to the end! Where is she? Not there—not in heaven—not perished—where? Oh! you said you cared nothing for my sufferings! And I pray one prayer—I repeat it till my tongue stiffens—May she wake in torment!" he cried, with frightful vehemence, stamping his foot, and groaning in a sudden paroxysm of ungovernable passion. "Why, she's a liar to the end! Where is she? Not there—not in heaven—not perished—where? Oh! you said you cared nothing for my sufferings! And I pray one prayer—I repeat it till my tongue stiffens—Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living; you said I killed you—haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderers, I believe. I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always—take any form—drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights
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