“Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.”
― The Mayor of Casterbridge
― The Mayor of Casterbridge
“I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.”
― Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
― Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“On and on the Great River rolls, racing east.
Of proud and gallant heros its white-tops leave no trace,
As right and wrong, pride and fall at once unreal
Yet ever the green hill stay
To blaze in the west-waning day...”
― Three Kingdoms Part 1
Of proud and gallant heros its white-tops leave no trace,
As right and wrong, pride and fall at once unreal
Yet ever the green hill stay
To blaze in the west-waning day...”
― Three Kingdoms Part 1
“The world under heaven, after a long period of division, tends to unite; after a long period of union, tends to divide. This has been so since antiquity. ”
― Romance of the Three Kingdoms Vol. 1
― Romance of the Three Kingdoms Vol. 1
“I was carried away, swept along by the mighty stream of words pouring from the hundreds of pages. To me it was the ultimate book: once you had read it, neither your own life nor the world you lived in would ever look the same.”
― Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
― Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
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