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“Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it.” —JOHNATHAN SWIFT, THE EXAMINER, 1710
“Reader, I married him.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“My worries travel about my head on their well-worn path, and it is a relief to put them on paper.”
― The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
― The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
“You know the greatest lesson of history? It's that history is whatever the victors say it is. That's the lesson. Whoever wins, that's who decides the history.”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
“I find myself drawn to literature more now than in the past; not the individual works as much as the idea of literature—the heroic effort and nobility of our human desire to make beauty of our minds—which moves me to tears, and I have to brush them away, quickly, before anyone notices.”
― A Tale for the Time Being
― A Tale for the Time Being
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