February 2012
“The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world. If you are...”
– Lemony Snicket
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“I love everything that’s old, — old friends, old times, old manners, old books,...”
– Oliver Goldsmith
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“I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights
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It is hard to burn the human heart.
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“Mi bella princesa, your funny little dwarf will never dance again. It is a pity;...”
– Oscar Wilde
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom,...”
– Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
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“Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly...”
– John Keats
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“Death is the side of life that is turned away from us and not illuminated. … The...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, from a letter to Witold Hulewicz dated 13 November 1925, in Duino Elegies
