“Everything seems futile here except the sun, our kisses, and the wild scents of the earth.… Here, I leave order and moderation to others. The great free love of nature and the sea absorbs me completely.”
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“Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -- namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.”
― The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
― The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
“I am the punishment of God...If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.”
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“Most people were heartless about turtles because a turtle’s heart will beat for hours after it has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too.”
― The Old Man and the Sea
― The Old Man and the Sea
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