Category: Quotes

  • William Shakespeare Quotes – Page 17 | Just Great DataBase

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    If we shadows have offended,Know but this and all is mended.That you have but slumbered here,While these visions did appear,And this weak and idle theme,No more yielding, but a dream. William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night’s Dream 67 Blood will have blood. William Shakespeare Macbeth 66 Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from…

  • Lolita Quotes – Page 3 | Just Great DataBase

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    When you wanted me to spend my afternoons sunbathing on the Lake instead of doing my work, I gladly gave in and became a bronzed glamor boy for your sake, instead of remaining a scholar and, well, an educator. Lolita 0 The spiritual and the physical had been blended in us with a perfection that…

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    Reader! Bruder! What a foolish Hamburg that Hamburg was! Since his supersensitive system was loath to face the actual scene, he thought he could at least enjoy a secret part of it—which reminds one of the tenth or twentieth soldier in the raping queue who throws the girl’s black shawl over her white face so…

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    I guess that’s how they were able to do it, in the way they did, all at once, without anyone knowing beforehand. If there had still been portable money, it would have been more difficult. “It was after the catastrophe, when they shot the president and machine-gunned the Congress and the army declared a state…

  • Hell is empty and all the devils The Tempest

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    Hell is empty and all the devils are here. Quote Analysis We meet this quote in the play “Tempest” written by William Shakespeare, Act 1, Scene 2, Page 10. It is said by Ariel, the magic spirit, reporting to its owner Prospero. Ariel was ordered to make a huge storm and set the ships of…

  • William Shakespeare Quotes – Page 61 | Just Great DataBase

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    What relish is in this? How runs the stream?Or I am mad, or else this is a dream.Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep.If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep! William Shakespeare Twelfth Night 4 But rather reason thus with reason fetter: Love sough is good but given unsought is better.…

  • To the Lighthouse Quotes

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    Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, halfway down, in the darkness, in the shaft which ran from the sunlight to the depths, perhaps a tear formed; a tear fell; the waves swayed this way and that, received it, and were at rest. Never did anybody look so sad. To the Lighthouse 67…

  • The Diary of a Young Girl Quotes – Page 3 | Just Great DataBase

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    We long for Saturdays because that means books. We’re like a lot of little children with a present. Ordinary people don’t know how much books can mean to someone who’s cooped up. Our only diversions are reading, studying and listening to the wireless. The Diary of a Young Girl 0 The Knock at the Door…

  • Totalitarism Quotes

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    Kitsch is the aesthetic ideal of all politicians and all political parties and movements. Those of us who live in a society where various political tendencies exist side by side and competing influences cancel or limit one another can manage more or less to escape the kitsch inquisition: the individual can preserve his individuality; the…

  • Perhaps one did not want to be 1984

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    Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood. Quote Analysis We have this quote at page 318 of “1984” by George Orwell. This is the part of mind control tortures that O’Brien applies to Winston. Winston suffered a terrible pain interrupted by the single question – how many fingers…