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  1. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

    Would you spend your single bright life hunting THE SECRET—when a hair may divide false from true?
    Omar Khayyam (Ghiyāth al-Dīn ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm Nīshābūrī)

  2. The Picture of Dorian Gray

    The portrait stains darker while he counts reasons not to confess—what is he protecting?
    Oscar Wilde

  3. The Picture of Dorian Gray

    He once wished to stay young while his portrait aged—now the canvas wears a cruelty he can't explain.
    Oscar Wilde

  4. The Divine Comedy

    A single figure is both humble and exalted—how can someone be the lowliest and the limit of the eternal counsel at once?
    Dante Alighieri

  5. The Picture of Dorian Gray

    To be popular, you must be a mediocrity.
    Oscar Wilde

  6. Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus

    If the innocent can be condemned, what can steady your belief when justice itself betrays you?
    Mary Shelley

  7. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

    Every respectable boy wanted to be Huck's outlaw self—what made forbidden freedom so contagious?
    Mark Twain

  8. Moby Dick; Or, The Whale

    The sun flies like a shuttle weaving the world's green carpet—yet the loom's hum drowns our smallest truths.
    Herman Melville

  9. Moby Dick; Or, The Whale

    Snow-white wings skim the surface; murderous leviathans rush in the deeps—two minds of the sea collide.
    Herman Melville

  10. Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus

    Watching an innocent condemned, he felt remorse claw at him more fiercely than the accused felt pain—how does guilt consume a witness?
    Mary Shelley

  11. Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus

    A promise to be with him on his wedding-night turned grief into a vow to fight—how do you protect love from vengeance?
    Mary Shelley

  12. Moby Dick; Or, The Whale

    The stranger in my room froze me with a fear as if the devil himself had broken in.
    Herman Melville

  13. Treasure Island

    He speaks latitude and longitude like a verdict—numbers that turn rumor into a place you can sail to and die at.
    Robert Louis Stevenson

  14. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

    I swore repentance—then Spring, rose in hand, tore my thread‑bare penitence to pieces; what undoes our vows?
    Omar Khayyam (Ghiyāth al-Dīn ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm Nīshābūrī)

  15. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

    A door with no key, a veil you cannot see through—what remains after 'ME and THEE' falls silent?
    Omar Khayyam (Ghiyāth al-Dīn ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm Nīshābūrī)