"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

Jane Austen, "Pride and Prejudice"

"If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."

J.K. Rowling, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"

"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."

Emily Brontë, "Wuthering Heights"

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Great Gatsby"

"Not all those who wander are lost."

J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Fellowship of the Ring"

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..."

Charles Dickens, "A Tale of Two Cities"

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."

Ernest Hemingway, "A Farewell to Arms"

"All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream."

Edgar Allan Poe, "A Dream Within A Dream"

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Famous Literary Quotes

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"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
Ernest Hemingway, "A Farewell to Arms"
Herman Melville, "Moby-Dick"
Emily Brontë, "Wuthering Heights"
Jane Austen, "Pride and Prejudice"
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"If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."
Harper Lee, "To Kill a Mockingbird"
Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Scarlet Letter"
J.K. Rowling, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"
Franz Kafka, "The Metamorphosis"
3
"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."
F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Great Gatsby"
Toni Morrison, "Beloved"
Emily Brontë, "Wuthering Heights"
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich"
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"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
Ernest Hemingway, "A Farewell to Arms"
Miguel de Cervantes, "Don Quixote"
Emily Brontë, "Wuthering Heights"
F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Great Gatsby"
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"Not all those who wander are lost."
Leo Tolstoy, "War and Peace"
Mary Shelley, "Frankenstein"
J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Fellowship of the Ring"
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..."
James Joyce, "Ulysses"
Fyodor Dostoevsky, "Crime and Punishment"
D.H. Lawrence, "Lady Chatterley's Lover"
Charles Dickens, "A Tale of Two Cities"
7
"To be, or not to be: that is the question..."
John Steinbeck, "The Grapes of Wrath"
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet"
Herman Melville, "Moby-Dick"
Virginia Woolf, "To the Lighthouse"
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"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."
Louisa May Alcott, "Little Women"
Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
Ernest Hemingway, "A Farewell to Arms"
Herman Melville, "Moby-Dick"
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"All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream."
F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Great Gatsby"
George Orwell, "1984"
Edgar Allan Poe, "A Dream Within A Dream"
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet"
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"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will."
Charlotte Brontë, "Jane Eyre"
Gabriel García Márquez, "One Hundred Years of Solitude"
J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Fellowship of the Ring"
J.D. Salinger, "The Catcher in the Rye"

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