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“What man who carries a heavenly soul in him, has not groaned to perceive, that unless he committed a sort of suicide as to the practical things of this world, he never can hope to regulate his earthly conduct by that same heavenly soul? And yet by an infallible instinct he knows, that that monitor can not be wrong in itself.”
— Oct 05, 2026 09:31AM
Pierre: or, The Ambiguities (Penguin Classics)

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“This good angel seemed mildly to say — Read, Pierre, though by reading thou may’st entangle thyself, yet may’st thou thereby disentangle others. Read, and feel that best blessedness which, with the sense of all duties discharged, holds happiness indifferent.”
— Jul 18, 2026 08:24PM
Pierre: or, The Ambiguities (Penguin Classics)


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“The face haunted him as some imploring, and beauteous, impassioned, ideal Madonna’s haunts the morbidly longing and enthusiastic, but ever-baffled artist.” Has Donna Tartt ever mentioned this book as inspiration? Important question. Surely... right?
— Jul 18, 2026 07:59PM
Pierre: or, The Ambiguities (Penguin Classics)


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