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Sean Blevins said:
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Tolstoy's final work. A study in contrasts between the pure and the decadent; an homage to the struggle to maintain one's honor in a corrupt world.As he does in Anna Karenina , Tolstoy illustrates via contrast. He presents the Chechen mountaineers a ...more "
“There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.”
― Hard Times
― Hard Times
“Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.”
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“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
“There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.”
― A Tale of Two Cities
― A Tale of Two Cities
“My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought that with any luck at all, I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had. I dislike washing myself, and dogs, and noise. I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet, and Amanita phalloides, the death-cup mushroom. Everyone else in our family is dead.”
― We Have Always Lived in the Castle
― We Have Always Lived in the Castle
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