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“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
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“While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.”
― Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
― Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
“I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”
― Letters of John Keats
― Letters of John Keats
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Isla ’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Isla ’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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