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  1. The Divine Comedy

    Once we were men; now we stand rooted as trees—how long before even pity is too late?
    Dante Alighieri

  2. Pride and Prejudice

    She refuses him plainly—not to wound, but because her feelings make acceptance impossible; what follows from such unvarnished honesty?
    Jane Austen

  3. The Divine Comedy

    One voice crowns a homeland the eternal pride that made our tongue—who claims such glory?
    Dante Alighieri

  4. The Prophet

    To judge you by your smallest deed is to measure the ocean by its foam.
    Kahlil Gibran

  5. Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience

    Not until we are lost do we begin to find where we truly belong.
    Thoreau, Henry David

  6. Crime and Punishment

    He claimed he wanted to be a Napoleon—can ambition ever be an excuse for murder?
    Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

  7. The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

    He drank at one gulp—and his face seemed to melt into something unthinkable, sending the witness back against the wall.
    Robert Louis Stevenson

  8. Crime and Punishment

    Power, he insists, is only for the man who dares to stoop and seize it—so he claims he committed an unthinkable act to prove he had the daring.
    Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

  9. Wuthering Heights

    He must remind himself to breathe; one consuming wish has devoured his life and left every act compelled by that hunger.
    Emily Brontë

  10. Wuthering Heights

    In a snow‑blanketed churchyard he scrapes at a coffin and feels her breath above him—how far will love push a living man?
    Emily Brontë

  11. Crime and Punishment

    He felt a sudden, precise calm, dressed in new clothes and stepped into the street—where was he going?
    Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

  12. Crime and Punishment

    A man tells him he's a murderer—how can a single sentence unmake a person?
    Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

  13. Crime and Punishment

    He flung himself at her feet, weeping—her terror shifts into a light of infinite happiness; what risk just flipped fear into joy?
    Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

  14. Leaves of Grass

    A leaf of grass, an ant, a mouse—each is as miraculous as a star's journey; scale collapses into wonder.
    Walt Whitman

  15. The Picture of Dorian Gray

    His own portrait had betrayed him—why had the face he painted become a stranger?
    Oscar Wilde