Category: Quotes
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All Quiet on the Western Front Summary
The events of the book take place in the middle of the First World War. Germany is already at war with France, Russia, England and America. The narrator is Paul Bäumer, a young German soldier, fighting in trenches with his fellows and former classmates. He introduces to the reader all of them: schoolboys, peasants, fishermen,…
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Quotes – Page 463 | Just Great DataBase
Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently. A Margaret Atwood The Handmaid’s Tale 0 But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. Margaret Atwood The Handmaid’s Tale 0 if ever by some unlucky chance such a crevice of time should yawn in the solid substance of…
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Quotes – Page 429 | Just Great DataBase
What is decreed must be, and be this so. William Shakespeare Twelfth Night 1 This is my friend Durandarte, flower and mirror of the true lovers and valiant knights of his time. He is held enchanted here, as I myself and many others are, by that French enchanter Merlin, who, they say, was the devil’s…
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The Odyssey Quotes – Page 2 | Just Great DataBase
As they were speaking, a dog that had been lying asleep raised his head and pricked up his ears. This was Argos, whom Odysseus had bred before setting out for Troy, but he had never had any enjoyment from him. In the old days he used to be taken out by the young men when…
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The Diary of a Young Girl Summary
The book starts describing the thirteenth birthday of Anne Frank, a Jewish girl living in Germany. It is June 12, 1942. Her parents give to her a diary as a present and Anne is excited because she wants a place to store all her secrets. Also Anne dreams to become a writer or start a…
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Quotes – Page 104 | Just Great DataBase
Up and down, up and downI will lead them up and downI am feared in field in townGoblin, lead them up and down William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night’s Dream 55 We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist? Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot 55 Does Big Brother exist?””Of course he exists.…
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Quotes – Page 512 | Just Great DataBase
I am afraid. Not of live, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if it had never been. Daniel Keyes Flowers for Algernon 0 but for mine own part, it was Greek to me. William Shakespeare Julius Caesar 0 La normalità, diceva Zia Lydia, significa ciò cui si è abituati. Se qualcosa potrà…
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Quotes – Page 382 | Just Great DataBase
Sometimes I aint so sho who’s got ere a right to say when a man is crazy and when he aint. Sometimes I think it aint none of us pure crazy and aint none of us pure sane until the balance of us talks him that-a-way. It’s like it aint so much what a fellow…