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“He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.”

Book:Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)

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Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)

This unabridged edition of Leo Tolstoy's renowned novel delves into the complex lives of its characters, including the tragic Anna Karenina, as they navigate the challenges of their personal and societal circumstances in 19th-century Russia. more

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Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy was a Russian writer and thinker, a prominent representative of 19th-century Russian literature. His works deeply revealed social contradictions and human nature, and had a profound impact on the world. more

“The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees, that each of them is; and this we do [with great artists]; with artists like these we do really fly from star to star.”

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Book:The captive, The fugitive

Source: The captive, The fugitive

“A lot of big studio films, which are fun and great, tend to have a formula, and you've seen it before, and it's a new version of it.”

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Author:Malin Akerman

“Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.”

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Author:Charlotte Bronte

“Down the hall came the wife. She was glorious, burning. She didn't know yet that her husband was dead. We knew. That's what gave her such power over us. The doctor took her into a room with a desk at the end of the hall, and from under the closed door a slab of brilliance radiated as if, by some stupendous process, diamonds were being incinerated in there. What a pair of lungs! She shrieked as I imagined an eagle would shriek. It felt wonderful to be alive to hear it! I've gone looking for that feeling everywhere.”