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  1. Shakespeare's Sonnets

    Weariness weighs every step when the person you love is the destination—why does longing make the miles so cruel?
    William Shakespeare

  2. The Divine Comedy

    May a new, open judgment fall on your blood so successors will tremble—what crime must be punished so publicly?
    Dante Alighieri

  3. Moby Dick; Or, The Whale

    Ahab vows to follow Moby Dick 'forehead to forehead'—even down the ocean’s 'endless stairs'; will obsession give him sight where none exists?
    Herman Melville

  4. Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus

    Motion made the ugliness unbearable—how could a face, once lifeless, become more hideous when given movement?
    Mary Shelley

  5. Jane Eyre

    Love gushes up like a fountain and swamps the careful field I've sown—will this flood nourish my plans or drown them?
    Charlotte Brontë

  6. Moby Dick; Or, The Whale

    A slack line becomes a noose—Pip is yanked overboard, the rope tightening as the whale runs.
    Herman Melville

  7. Leaves of Grass

    A cannon's crack slices a funeral hymn—battle has barged between priest and pew.
    Walt Whitman

  8. Leaves of Grass

    Love is gravity—the ache inside one body that pulls all others toward it.
    Walt Whitman

  9. Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience

    I bathe my intellect in the Bhagavat Gita and then draw water at my well—how far can a single act of reading reach?
    Thoreau, Henry David

  10. The Republic

    Strip away appetite, and the same soul would see truth as plainly as the eye sees near things now.
    Plato

  11. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    Holmes held up the blue carbuncle, cold and brilliant like a star—why did Ryder's face harden between claim and denial?
    Arthur Conan Doyle

  12. Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience

    The pond's greatest depth lay where its longest and widest lines crossed—could that small rule point to the ocean's depths?
    Thoreau, Henry David

  13. The Picture of Dorian Gray

    Philosophy slipped her wine-stained robe and danced like a Bacchante until sense fled before pleasure.
    Oscar Wilde

  14. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    He stepped into the cab—and vanished; witnesses swore he'd been inside. Where could a man disappear to from a hansom?
    Arthur Conan Doyle

  15. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    standalone_clarity The Ku Klux Klan sent oak sprigs, melon seeds, orange pips—why would a token force a man to flee or invite a death he couldn't escape?
    Arthur Conan Doyle