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  1. Pride and Prejudice

    He kept watching her as she played—was it admiration, or did he think her most reprehensible?
    Jane Austen

  2. Moby Dick; Or, The Whale

    All lofty things mirror a man's self—tower, volcano, and bird, and Ahab is all three.
    Herman Melville

  3. Jane Eyre

    Hunger and cold want me dead tonight—yet the belief that Mr. Rochester lives keeps me fighting.
    Charlotte Brontë

  4. The Divine Comedy

    A trembling kiss on the mouth, and the book called 'Galeotto'—how did a single reading stop and start a forbidden passion?
    Dante Alighieri

  5. Shakespeare's Sonnets

    Imagine a sleeping Love-god disarmed by a virgin’s cool hand—why does the supposed cure only prove love’s stubborn fire?
    William Shakespeare

  6. The Picture of Dorian Gray

    He seized the knife and, like a hunted animal, stabbed again and again.
    Oscar Wilde

  7. Meditations

    If you feel anger rise, first point to the same fault in your own hand—watch how the fury loosens.
    Marcus Aurelius

  8. Moby Dick; Or, The Whale

    A gigantic white skeleton lounges while vines weave green over its bones—how can Death be the forest's cunning weaver of life?
    Herman Melville

  9. The Republic

    When reason finally beholds the 'sun' of the good, what shadows does it leave behind in the world of sight?
    Plato

  10. Jane Eyre

    She stands punished and unmoved, eyes fixed inward—what memory or dream keeps her steadier than shame?
    Charlotte Brontë

  11. The Republic

    What if a state ran on a deliberate 'magnificent lie'—could a myth of shared origins hold society together?
    Plato

  12. Moby Dick; Or, The Whale

    Who are you, boy? Your eyes give back no reflection—what is passing through you?
    Herman Melville

  13. A Room with a View

    She gasped and was kissed—then life slid back to the upper lawn; what shifted in that stolen instant?
    E. M. Forster

  14. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

    Being 'respectable' is unbearable—I'd rather live in a barrel than trade freedom for constant rules.
    Mark Twain

  15. Pride and Prejudice

    Stay where you are—you are charmingly grouped; admitting a fourth would spoil the picturesque.
    Jane Austen