Classic literature quotes

Quotes by various authors and poets that I keep in my heart ✿ Literature Masterdoc link in bio

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@20thCenturyMann yes i know that im not saying im pro death penalty under this state. im saying idc if a victim kills their abuser for example which op has a problem with. i never used the words death penalty for a reason

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@20thCenturyMann oomf u blocked me before i could reply but i literally said what u r saying rn.
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@brutaliababy sorry i obviously don't trust a racist, misogynist, homophobic, capitalism government to decide who to kill but if that wasn't the case, i would trust it yes like lmaoo

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Twitter has officially ended large-scale API usage meaning this account no longer works as intended, I shall keep it up and post quotes manually as I read books and keep it up as an archive but it will no longer be hourly. Thank you for your support up until now! ♡

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morning / new / I can see / smell / feel / a new morning / one step / another / day / day and night / week / month / year / years / tens / hundreds / thousands / that's how I grow out of this earth to the earth / I / and those like me

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(...) Savior has you come up in a row and asks with His big eyes: Where are my cattle now? What have you done with them? Did you make them available to the people at prices they could afford? Then where have they ended up?

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If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it?

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'Villains!' I shrieked. 'Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart!'

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If life were merely a habit, I should commit suicide; but even now, more or less desperate, I cannot but think, ‘Something wonderful may happen.’ It is not optimism, it is a rejection of self-pity (I hope) which leaves a loophole for life…

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'Are people so unhappy when they love?' 'Yes, Christine, when they love and are not so sure of being loved.'

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It's been months since I last wrote. I've lived in a state of mental slumber, leading the life of someone else. I've felt, very often, a vicarious happiness. I haven't existed. I've been someone else. I've lived without thinking.

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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

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Yes - or rather, it's not so much that I want to die as that I'm tired of living.

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When I breathe, / This sound in my chest / Lonelier than the winter wind.

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But I being fond of true philosophy, / Say very often to myself, 'Alas! / All things that have been born were born to die, / And flesh (which Death mows down to hay) is grass; / You've pass'd your youth not so unpleasantly, / And if you had it o'er again - 't would pass -

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Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.

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'Why, you are seriously ill, do you know that?' He began feeling his pulse. Raskolnikov pulled away his hand.

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I felt as though the vessel if my suffering had become empty, as if nothing could interest me now. I had lost even the ability to suffer.

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When you pass'd my window home yesterday, I was fill'd with as much admiration as if I had then seen you for the first time... Even if you did not love me I could not help an entire devotion to you.

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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.

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You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.