Classics Reader
A (loose) documentation of my attempt to read all the books on the Barnes and Noble Classics list.
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”Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.
Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
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”Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
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”Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
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”After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers and I was in a sweat to find out all about him; but by and by she let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then I didn’t care no more about him, because I don’t take no stock in dead people.
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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”Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world’s original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey
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”Even as a child she had lived her own small life within herself. At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively the dual life- that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions.
Kate Chopin, The Awakening
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”Amory wondered how people could fail to notice that he was a boy marked for glory, and when faces of the throng turned toward him and ambiguous eyes stared into his, he assumed the most romantic expressions and walked on the air cushions that lie on the asphalts of fourteen.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
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”That terrifying product of the social system he belonged to and believed in, the young girl who knew and expected everything, looked back at him like a stranger through May Welland’s familiar features; and once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but a voyage on uncharted seas.
Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
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”On the eve of long voyages or an absence of many years, friends who are tenderly attached will separate with the usual look, the usual pressure of the hand, planning one final interview for the morrow, while each well knows that it is but a poor feint to save the pain of uttering that one word, and the meeting will never be. Should possibilities be worse to bear than certainties?
Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
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”She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.
Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
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She imagines him imagining her. This is her salvation.
In spirit she walks the city, traces its...
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