Category: Quotes
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Future Quotes
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever. George Orwell 1984 1914 You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it.…
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Pride and Prejudice Quotes – Page 18 | Just Great DataBase
To yield readily—easily—to the persuasion of a friend is no merit with you.” “To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either. Pride and Prejudice 0 Mr. Bingley, and he was looked at with Pride and Prejudice 0 domestic circle; and, though Kitty might in time regain her natural degree of sense,…
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The Great Gatsby Quotes – Page 10 | Just Great DataBase
She yawned gracefully in my face. The Great Gatsby 1 Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope. I The Great Gatsby 1 Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms…
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Quotes – Page 551 | Just Great DataBase
…it would be like gazing at the photograph of a dead comrade; those are his features, it is his face, and the days we spent together take on a mournful life in the memory; but the man himself it is not. Erich Maria Remarque All Quiet on the Western Front 0 I know why there…
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Quotes – Page 112 | Just Great DataBase
The fortune my spirit is not to be blown into coins of brass and flung to the winds as alms for the poor of the spirit. I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom. Ayn Rand Anthem 48 I don’t want to prove anything; I merely…
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The Tell-Tale Heart Quotes
Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded… The Tell-Tale Heart 442 True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had sharpened my…
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Quotes – Page 526 | Just Great DataBase
Another thing to strive for: reading your history should move the melancholy to laughter, increase the joy of the cheerful, not irritate the simple, fill the clever with admiration for its invention, not give the serious reason to scorn it, and allow the prudent to praise it. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Don Quixote 0 recognizable…
