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Rua'a
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"But the cloud never comes in that quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it." — Nov 27, 2017 02:46PM
"But the cloud never comes in that quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it." — Nov 27, 2017 02:46PM
“She suddenly thought one afternoon, when looking in the glass at her fairness, that there was yet another date, of greater importance to her than those; that of her own death, when all these charms would have disappeared; a day which lay sly and unseen among all the other days of the year, giving no sign or sound when she annually passed over it; but not the less surely there. When was it? Why did she not feel the chill of each yearly encounter with such a cold relation? She had Jeremy Taylor's thought that some time in the future those who had known her would say, 'It is the -th, the day that poor Tess Durbeyfield died'; and there would be nothing singular to their minds in the statement. Of that day, doomed to be her terminus in time through all the ages, she did not know the place in month, week, season, or year.”
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
“I think you must have your feelings under a very good control. You turn them about and face them the way you want them to be. I wish I could do that. What’s the secret?”
― Ross Poldark
― Ross Poldark
“Buy an atlas and keep it by the bed—remember you can go anywhere.”
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