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Was it a good --" The air was heavy with unspoken knowledge. Sam twisted and the obscene word shot out of him. "-- dance?" Memory of the dance that none of them had attended shook all four boys convulsively."We left early.

leaving senior year like: its hard to leave to you leave, then its the eased goddam thing you've ever done.

He looks miserable poor soul!

...ali prije nego što mogu živjeti s drugima, moram moći živjeti sam sa sobom. Savjest je jedna od stvari o kojoj se ne odlučuje glasovanjem većine.

There are just some kind of men who- who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one

I’ll never worry about what’ll become of you, son, you’ll always have an idea. Jem’s

I will be mistress of myself.

Por un extraño azar la próvida Fortuna,que ahora me acompaña, ha traídohasta aquí a mis enemigos, y por prescienciaveo que mi cenit depende de un astrosumamente favorable y que, si noaprovecho su influencia, mi suertedecaerá. Cesen ya tus preguntas.Te duermes. Es benigna soñolencia.Abandónate: no puedes evitarla. (Próspero)

I often thought that if I had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little, I would have gotten used to it.

Grownups know things, said Piggy. They ain’t afraid of the dark. They’d meet and have tea and discuss. Then things ’ud be all right—

Mr. Underwood didn’t talk about miscarriages of justice, he was writing so children could understand. Mr. Underwood simply figured it was a sin to kill cripples, be they standing, sitting, or escaping. He likened Tom’s death to the senseless slaughter of songbirds by hunters and children, and Maycomb thought he was trying to write an editorial poetical enough to be reprinted in The Montgomery Advertiser. How could this be so, I wondered, as I read Mr. Underwood’s editorial. Senseless killing—Tom had been given due process of law to the day of his death; he had been tried openly and convicted by twelve good men and true; my father had fought for him all the way. Then Mr. Underwood’s meaning became clear: Atticus had used every tool available to free men to save Tom Robinson, but in the secret courts of men’s hearts Atticus had no case. Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed.

Suppose, in their altruistic passion for justice and order, they had determined to reform the world, but had not realized that they were destroying the soul of man?

It is not every one," said Elinor, "who has your passion for dead leaves.

GONZALO: I' the commonwealth I would by contrariesExecute all things; for no kind of trafficWould I admit; no name of magistrate;Letters should not be known; riches, poverty,And use of service, none; contract, succession,Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none;No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil;No occupation; all men idle, all;And women too, but innocent and pure;And no sovereignty; -SEBASTIAN: Yet he would be king on't.ANTONIO: The latter end of his commonwealth forgets the beginning.

And it has a fascination, too, that goes to work upon him. The fascination of the abomination--you know, imagine the growing regrets, the longing to escape, the powerless disgust, the surrender, the hate.

Che idea, pensare che la Bestia fosse qualcosa che si potesse cacciare e uccidere! [...] Lo sapevi, no?… Che io sono una parte di te? Vieni vicino, vicino, vicino! che io sono la ragione per cui non c’è niente da fare? Per cui le cose vanno come vanno?

Do not you feel a great inclination, Miss Bennet, to seize such an opportunity of dancing a reel?

Jem also told me that if I breathed a word to Atticus, if in any way I let Atticus know I knew, Jem would personally never speak to me again.

Even the few serious crimes that did occur received no particular attention in the news. For well-bred people do not, after all, care to read about the social gaffes of others.

But while the imaginations of other people will carry them away to form wrong judgements of our conduct, and to decide on it by slight appearances, one's happiness must in some measure be always at the mercy of chance.