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Doctor Zhivago
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"The very surface of this book has only been scratched and I feel as if it’s clawing into my soul. The ramblings and inner monologue of some the characters are absolutely resonating with me. There is much still clouded, and I do not know even a fraction of what is to come or what these souls placed on paper truly consist of. Yet, I already begin to feel akin to one and am entranced by the others. Thank you, Boris" Jul 08, 2026 08:14PM

 
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It can inform and lead into new places the flow of our sympathetic consciousness, and it can lead our sympathy away in recoil from things gone dead. Therefore, the novel, properly handled, can reveal the most secret places of life: for it ...more
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Virginia Woolf
“Happiness is in the quiet, ordinary things. A table, a chair, a book with a paper-knife stuck between the pages. And the petal falling from the rose, and the light flickering as we sit silent.”
Virginia Woolf, The Waves

Jane Austen
“There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison”
Jane Austen, Persuasion

Louisa May Alcott
“Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want.”
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

J.R.R. Tolkien
“It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.”
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

Jane Austen
“How quick come the reasons for approving what we like.”
Jane Austen, Persuasion
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