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"There are two races of people, only two, and they live side by side. His calls mine 'neurotic'; mine calls his 'stupid'."
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| Sinclair Lewis | Main Street |
The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.
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| Kate Chopin | The Awakening |
She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.
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| Gilbert Parker | Mrs. Falchion |
Grace Stepney's mind was like a kind of moral fly-paper, to which the buzzing items of gossip were drawn by a fatal attraction, and where they hung fast in the toils of an inexorable memory.
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| Edith Wharton | The House of Mirth |
"The confusion of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error."
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| George Bernard Shaw | Man And Superman |
"The children in this country are the one center and focus of all our thoughts. Every step of our advance is always considered in its effect on them--on the race. You see, we are MOTHERS," she repeated, as if in that she had said it all
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| Charlotte Gilman | Herland |
In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly, and see them depart with such anguish, being shadows.
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| Virginia Woolf | Jacob's Room |
Thus violent deeds live after men upon the earth, and traces of war and bloodshed will survive in mournful shapes long after those who worked the desolation are but atoms of earth themselves.
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| Charles Dickens | The Old Curiosity Shop |
He understood now why the world was strange, why horses galloped furiously, and why trains whistled as they raced through stations. All the comedy and terror of nightmare gripped his heart with pincers made of ice.
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| Algernon Blackwood | The Other Wing |
Her husband had archaic ideas about jewels; a man bought them for his wife in acknowledgment of things he could not gracefully utter.
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| Willa Cather | A Lost Lady |
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