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...his work has some meaning. When he lights his street lamp, it is as if he brought one more star to life, or one flower. When he puts out his lamp, he sends the flower, or the star, to sleep. That is a beautiful occupation. And since it is beautiful, it is truly useful.

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It could be old clips, it could be faked. But

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You see?" Granger turned to Montag. "Grandfather's been dead for all these years, but if you lifted my skull, by God, in the convolutions of my brain you'd find the big ridges of his thumbprint. He touched me. As I said earlier, he was a sculptor. 'I hate a Roman named Status Quo!' he said to me. 'Stuff your eyes with wonder,' he said, 'live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there were, it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away. To hell with that,' he said, 'shake the tree and knock the great sloth down on his ass.

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A light here required a shadow there.

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Del pasado no tiene usted que recordar más que lo placentero." - Elizabeth

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(...) aunque se deseara con impaciencia, un acontecimiento no traía consigo, al producirse, toda la satisfacción esperada.

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Let us leave it at this, said Atticus dryly. You, Miss Scout Finch, are the common folk. You must obey the law. He said that the Ewells were members of an exclusive society made up of Ewells. In certain circumstances the common folk judiciously allowed them certain privileges by the simple method of becoming blind to some of the Ewells’ activities. They didn’t have to go to school, for one thing. Another thing, Mr. Bob Ewell, Burris’s father, was permitted to hunt and trap out of season. Atticus,

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I just want to be smart like other pepul so I can have lots of frends who like me.

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I can't think of myself, my body, sometimes, without seeing the skeleton: how I must appear to an electron.

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How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all. What an available temptation. A

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Грейнджър застана до Монтег и също погледна назад.— Дядо ми казваше, че всеки трябва да остави нещо след себе си, когато умре. Дете или книга, или картина, или къща, или стена, която е построил, или чифт обувки, които е изработил. Или пък градина, която е посадил. Нещо, до което ръката ти се е докоснала по такъв начин, че да има къде да отиде душата ти, когато умреш. И когато хората погледнат дървото или цветето, които си посадил, ще те видят в тях. Няма значение какво правиш, казваше той, стига само с докосването си да можеш да превърнеш едно нещо в нещо, което не е било преди, в нещо ново, което ще прилича на теб, след като отдръпнеш ръцете си. Именно в докосването се крие разликата между човека, който само коси полянката, и истинския градинар, казваше той. От косача няма да има и следа; градинарят ще остане там цял живот.

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Gatsby gửi niềm tin của mình vào cái đốm sáng xanh, cái tương lai làm đê mê lòng người mỗi năm một lùi ra xa chúng ta hơn. Nó đã tuột khỏi tay chúng ta rồi, nhưng có sao! – ngày mai chúng ta sẽ dấn bước nhanh hơn, sẽ vươn tay ra dài hơn...Và một buổi sáng đẹp trời...Chúng ta cứ thế cố dấn lên, như những chiếc thuyền cố đi ngược dòng nước không ngừng bị đẩy về dĩ vãng...

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orgullo –observó Mary, que se preciaba mucho de la solidez de sus reflexiones–, es un defecto muy común. Por todo lo que he leído, estoy convencida de que en realidad es muy frecuente que la naturaleza humana sea especialmente propensa a él, hay muy pocos que no abriguen un sentimiento de autosuficiencia por una u otra razón, ya sea real o imaginaria. La vanidad y el orgullo son cosas distintas, aunque muchas veces se usen como sinónimos. El orgullo está relacionado con la opinión que tenemos de nosotros mismos; la vanidad, con lo que quisiéramos que los demás pensaran de nosotros.

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Колкото опознавам света, толкова повече меразочарова; всеки изминал ден ме уверява в несъвършенството начовешкия характер и в измамната фасада на достойнството иблагоразумието.

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It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.

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how foolish I was ever to have thought that professors were intellectual giants. They’re people—and afraid the rest of the world will find out.

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Cassius has a lean and hungry look;      He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.

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If I owned a silk scarf, I could put it around my neck and take it away with me. If I owned a flower, I could pluck that flower and take it away with me. But you cannot pluck the stars from heaven…

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they were awful without being believable. They were too melodramatic, they had a dimension that was not the dimension of our lives. We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.

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