💬 Quotes

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"“Curiouser and curiouser!” cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English)."
Alice's Adventures in Wonderlandby LEWIS CARROLL
"“It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”"
Alice's Adventures in Wonderlandby LEWIS CARROLL
"“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”"
Alice's Adventures in Wonderlandby LEWIS CARROLL
"“Take some more tea,” the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly. “I've had nothing yet,” Alice replied in an offended tone, “so I can't take more.” “You mean you can't take *less*,” said the Hatter: “it's very easy to take *more* than nothing.”"
Alice's Adventures in Wonderlandby LEWIS CARROLL
"“Contrariwise,” continued Tweedledee, “if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.”"
Alice's Adventures in Wonderlandby LEWIS CARROLL
"The more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!"
Sense and Sensibilityby Jane Austen
"Know your own happiness. Want nothing but patience to endure and enact it."
Sense and Sensibilityby Jane Austen
"It is not everyone who has your passion for dead leaves."
Sense and Sensibilityby Jane Austen
"I wish as well as everybody else to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way."
Sense and Sensibilityby Jane Austen
"Constant engagement is not actually required for an attachment; to be at ease in the same society is a wonderful step towards it."
Sense and Sensibilityby Jane Austen
"Elinor, this is too much. To take rise in the world, to be happy, to be honoured, to be everything that is fortunate, nobody denies; but I have been too miserable to be easily comforted."
Sense and Sensibilityby Jane Austen
"Die Zeichnung ist nicht Illustration des Textes, sondern ein eigener Weg in das Unbekannte der Hölle."
"La divina commedia"by Markus Vallazza
"Im Strich liegt das Gewicht der Schuld und die Schwere des Abstiegs."
"La divina commedia"by Markus Vallazza
"Das Schwarz und Weiß der Radierung fängt die absolute Verlorenheit der Seele ein."
"La divina commedia"by Markus Vallazza
"Jede Linie ist ein Seufzer, jeder Schatten ein verlorener Hoffnungsschimmer im Jenseits."
"La divina commedia"by Markus Vallazza
"Der Körper wird bei Dante zur Landschaft des Schmerzes, die die Hand des Künstlers neu vermisst."
"La divina commedia"by Markus Vallazza
"Durch das Labyrinth der Hölle führt kein Ausweg, nur die unerbittliche Klarheit der Form."
"La divina commedia"by Markus Vallazza
"The harsh reality of Soviet economic life was that survival often depended on bypassing the official rules rather than following them."
Hard Timesby William Moskoff
"For the average Soviet citizen, the centrally planned economy was not an abstract theory, but a daily obstacle course of shortages and long queues."
Hard Timesby William Moskoff
"The second economy acted as both a parasite on the socialist state and the vital glue that kept the entire system from completely falling apart."
Hard Timesby William Moskoff