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“I ask no paradise on high, With cares on earth oppressed,
The only heaven for which I sigh, Is rest, eternal rest.”
― Twelve Years a Slave
The only heaven for which I sigh, Is rest, eternal rest.”
― Twelve Years a Slave
“...for the human brain can become the best torture house of all those it has invented, established and used in a millions of years, in millions of lands, on millions of howling creatures.”
― Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
― Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
“There's a sin, a fearful sin, resting on this nation, that will not go unpunished forever. There will be reckoning yet ... it may be sooner or it may be later, but it's a coming as sure as the Lord is just”
― Twelve Years a Slave
― Twelve Years a Slave
“If you would be unloved and forgotten, be reasonable.”
― God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
― God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
“Really, it was difficult to determine which I had most reason to fear—dogs, alligators or men!”
― 12 Years a Slave
― 12 Years a Slave
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