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Life Lessons from Literature

  • bootumlumtalahas quoted6 months ago
    curse.
    ‘All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way’
  • Ma.Jhonileen P. Javillonarhas quoted7 months ago
    Watership Down (1972)
  • darya vinocurhas quoted7 months ago
    People and Society, but this is naturally because novels are inhabited by characters with human personalities
  • nur athirahhas quoted2 months ago
    I have been trying to remember what was the first book I ever read. By first book, I mean first proper book, first ‘grown up’ book, the first novel of over two hundred pages
  • Валентинhas quoted3 months ago
    ‘I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.’
  • Soliloquios Literarioshas quoted3 months ago
    The list is largely arbitrary – as all lists of this type are – and makes no pretence to be in any way authoritative and set in stone
  • Onopfheahas quoted7 months ago
    Watership Down (1972)
  • Lizbeth Sinaíhas quoted7 months ago
    Books teach us lessons about life, the world around us and the people that inhabit it, and those lessons enrich our understanding of ourselves and others.
  • pantherkds15has quoted1 hour ago
    Roald Dahl books and the Agaton Sax series of detective novels by Swedish children’s author Nils-Olof Franzén,
  • Riyam Alshimmaryhas quoted2 days ago
    Although initially dismissive of Elizabeth, Darcy comes to appreciate her wit and intelligence but is resistant through a sense of prejudice that Elizabeth is below his social standing.
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