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    Italo Calvino
    “A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
    ― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature
    tags: books, classics, literature, meaning, reading, words
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    Emily Brontë
    “If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave.”
    ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
    tags: classics, love, obsession
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    Homer
    “…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.”
    ― Homer, The Iliad
    tags: classics, greece, longing, love, lovers
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    William Shakespeare
    “O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224)”
    ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
    tags: classics, education
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    Zora Neale Hurston
    “Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.”
    ― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
    tags: classics, inspirational
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    E.M. Forster
    “When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.”
    ― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View
    tags: classics, love
    448 likes

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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose”
    ― Mary Shelley
    tags: classics, education
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    Benjamin Disraeli
    “The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it. ”
    ― Benjamin Disraeli
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    William Makepeace Thackeray
    “Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?”
    ― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
    tags: classics, humor, satire, vanity
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    Deborah Moggach
    “You may only call me "Mrs. Darcy"... when you are completely, and perfectly, and incandescently happy.”
    ― Deborah Moggach, Pride & Prejudice screenplay
    tags: classics, love
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    Homer
    “Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it’s born with us the day that we are born.”
    ― Homer, The Iliad
    tags: classics, death, fate, greece, grief, wisdom
    366 likes

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    Charles Bukowski
    “I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye
    tags: alone, appearance, beautiful, beauty, bukowski, classic, classics, loneliness, lonely, mirror, people, poem, poetry, reflection, self, self-esteem, soul, superficial, superficial-beauty, superficiality, ugly
    351 likes

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    John Ruskin
    “All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time.”
    ― John Ruskin, Sesame and Lilies
    tags: books, classics, popularity
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    Clifton Fadiman
    “When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.”
    ― Clifton Fadiman, Any Number Can Play
    tags: books, classics
    292 likes

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    George Orwell
    “If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.”
    ― George Orwell, All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays
    tags: authorial-intent, classics, drama, interpretation, shakespeare
    257 likes

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    Emily Brontë
    “May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then.”
    ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
    tags: classics
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    Sophocles
    “Time, which sees all things, has found you out.”
    ― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
    tags: classics, greek-literature, mythology
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    Yukio Mishima
    “Young people get the foolish idea that what is new for them must be new for everybody else too. No matter how unconventional they get, they're just repeating what others before them have done.”
    ― Yukio Mishima, After the Banquet
    tags: classic-literature, japanese-literature
    261 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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    “When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.”
    ― Cliff Fadiman
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    Taylor Caldwell
    “. . . a statement that is repugnant to one's beliefs can be as true as one that is pleasurable.”
    ― Taylor Caldwell, Dear and Glorious Physician
    tags: christian-fiction, classic-literature, inspirational-fiction, literary
    18 likes

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    Kevin Ansbro
    “Reading Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov is comparable to pushing a beautiful grand piano up a very steep hill.”
    ― Kevin Ansbro
    tags: classic-literature, dostoevsky, dostoyevsky, russian-literature, the-brothers-karamazov
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    Alexei Panshin
    “Classics aren't books that are read for pleasure. Classics are books that are imposed on unwilling students, books that are subjected to analyses of "levels of significance" and other blatt, books that are dead.”
    ― Alexei Panshin, Rite of Passage
    tags: classic-fiction, classic-literature, classics, classics-curriculum
    14 likes

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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: beauty, death, poetry, women
    1038 likes

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    Marilyn Monroe
    “All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: beauty, girls
    6875 likes

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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: cats, humor, women
    28776 likes

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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
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    Nora Ephron
    “Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
    ― Nora Ephron
    tags: courage, empowerment, self-determination, women
    6531 likes

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    John Lennon
    “As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: beatles, men, women
    6247 likes

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    D.H. Lawrence
    “A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”
    ― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
    tags: life, living, philosophy, women
    4920 likes



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