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Daniel Deronda (Wordsworth Classics) by George Eliot (1996-12-05)

by Unknown Author

bookshelves: 1860s, 1870s, 19th-century, classics, country-house, gambling, the-horsy-set, victorian-novels, wessex, jewish-characters, currently-reading

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Madame Élisabeth: Sœur de Louis XVI

by Anne Bernet

bookshelves: 18th-century, ancien-regime-france, biography, french-revolution, marie-antoinette, royalty, louis-xvi, madame-elisabeth, currently-reading

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Illusions perdues

by Honoré de Balzac

bookshelves: 19th-century, classics, coming-of-age, france, french-language, paris, publishing, writers, writing, 1820s, currently-reading

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“I'm going to enjoy every second, and I'm going to know I'm enjoying it while I'm enjoying it. Most people don't live; they just race. They are trying to reach some goal far away on the horizon, and in the heat of the going they get so breathless and panting that they lose sight of the beautiful, tranquil country they are passing through; and then the first thing they know, they are old and worn out, and it doesn't make any difference whether they've reached the goal or not.”
― Jean Webster

tags: enjoy, goals, happiness, life, rat-race

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“Whisky, gambling and Ferraris are better than housework.”
― Françoise Sagan

tags: feminism, whisky

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“If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.”
― Abraham Lincoln

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“I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

tags: authors, challenges, keys, writing

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“I went to bed last night utterly dejected; I thought I was never going to amount to anything, and that you had thrown away your money for nothing. But what do you think? I woke up this morning with a beautiful new plot in my head, and I've been going about all day planning my characters, just as happy as I could be. No one can ever accuse me of being a pessimist! If I had a husband and twelve children swallowed by an earthquake one day, I'd bob up smilingly the next morning and commence to look for another set. ~Jershua Abbott”
― Jean Webster, Daddy-Long-Legs

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