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“Doesn't it seem to you," asked Madame Bovary, "that the mind moves more freely in the presence of that boundless expanse, that the sight of it elevates the soul and gives rise to thoughts of the infinite and the ideal?”
― Madame Bovary
― Madame Bovary
“... there are shadows because there are hills.”
― A Room with a View
― A Room with a View
“Don't go fighting against the Spring.”
― A Room with a View
― A Room with a View
“I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I make myself submit to my adversary’s force of reason, than I am pleased with the victory I obtain over him through his weakness.”
― The Complete Essays
― The Complete Essays
“I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, and the round ocean, and the living air, and the blue sky, and in the mind of man...”
― Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
― Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
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