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Mega biblion mega kakon Big book big evil Callimachus Classics 193
Vera incessu patuit dea. The goddess indubitable was revealed in her step. Virgil Classics 136
Why so much grief for me No man will hurl me down to Death against my fate. And fate No one alive has ever escaped it neither brave man nor coward I tell you its born with us the day that we are born. Homer Classics 112
You may only call me Mrs. Darcy... when you are completely and perfectly and incandescently happy. Jane Austen Classics 111
But I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman and as if women were all fine ladies instead of rational creatures. We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days. Jane Austen Classics 111
There is remedy for all things except death Don Quixote De La Mancha Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Classics 109
She pronounced the word married as if her voice caressed it. It seemed a rustling covert leading to enchanted glades. Edith Wharton Classics 100
He felt that he was himself and did not wish to be anyone else. He only wished now to be better than he had been formerly Leo Tolstoy Classics 93
Come then put away your sword in its sheath and let us two go up into my bed so that lying together in the bed of love we may then have faith and trust in each other. Homer Classics 92
I like all kinds of music, though I tend to prefer jazz and classics. Erik Larson Classics 86
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure. Jane Austen Classics 86
She was nothing more than a mere goodtempered civil and obliging Young Woman as such we could scarcely dislike her she was only an Object of Contempt Jane Austen Classics 82
Calvino was not a writer of hits; he was a writer of classics. William Weaver Classics 80
I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure that had long appeared dead revive within me. Half surprised by the novelty of these sensations I allowed myself to be borne away by them and forgetting my solitude and deformity dared to be happy. Mary Shelley Classics 76
Rumours voiced by women come to nothing. Aeschylus Classics 71
Mama the more I know of the world the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. Jane Austen Classics 70
There is the heat of Love the pulsing rush of Longing the lovers whisper irresistiblemagic to make the sanest man go mad. Homer Classics 67
Nita je umreti strano je ne iveti. Victor Hugo Classics 59
The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it. Benjamin Disraeli Classics 58
There is nothing alive more agonized than man of all that breathe and crawl across the earth. Homer Classics 57
Countless words count less than the silent balance between yin and yang Lao Tzu Classics 57
I am not what I am.. William Shakespeare Classics 55
Mr Pinch accordingly after turning over the leaves of his book with as much care as if they were living and highly cherished creatures made his own selection and began to read. Charles Dickens Classics 54
Many a law many a commandment have I broken but my word never. Walter Scott Classics 53
Let him submit to me Only the god of death is so relentless Death submits to no oneso mortals hate him most of all the gods. Let him bow down to me I am the greater king I am the elderborn I claimthe greater man. Homer Classics 53
He might wish and wish and never get it the beauty and the loving in the world John Galsworthy Classics 53
but there they lay sprawled across the field craved far more by the vultures than by wives. Homer Classics 52
I call it an old-fashioned seafood house for the new millennium. We are trying to update what we know as old fish houses and places like that, which are great, but I want to give it a new, fresh look with updated versions of the classics we all love. Todd English Classics 49
Ruin eldest daughter of Zeus she blinds us all that fatal madnessshe with those delicate feet of hers never touching the earth gliding over the heads of men to trap us all. She entangles one man now another. Homer Classics 48
Youre on your own little quest an theres a bit of Frodo Baggins in you and a bit of Vernes Paganel and just a tiny drop of Robinson Cursoe and a smidgeon of Radishchev. Sergei Lukyanenko Classics 48
I could read the great books but the great books dont interest me. Charles Bukowski Classics 47
Nature pulls one way and human nature another. E.M. Forster Classics 46
Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied? William Makepeace Thackeray Classics 45
Time which sees all things has found you out. Sophocles Classics 45
Pearls burst out the Snork Maiden excitedly. Could ankle rings be made out of pearls I should think they could said Moomintoll. Anklerings and noserings and earrings and engagement rings... Tove Jansson Classics 45
No code mattered to her before she broke it but it came crashing down on her afterwards. Atticus Finch Harper Lee Classics 43
Ive always found that the better the book Im reading the smarter I feel or at least the more able I am to imagine that I might someday become smarter. Francine Prose Classics 43
Broad wholesome charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all ones lifetime. Mark Twain Classics 43
When I think of what life is and how seldom love is answered by love it is one of the moments for which the world was made. E.M. Forster Classics 42
Out of the unreal shadows of the night comes back the real life that we had known Oscar Wilde Classics 41
I live not in myself but I become Portion of that around me and to me High mountains are a feeling but the hum of human cities torture. George Gordon Byron Classics 39
Every new book we read in our brief and busy lives means that a classic is left unread. B.R. Myers Classics 37
Life if curious when reduced to its essentials Jean Rhys Classics 37
Like a girl a baby running after her mother begging to be picked up and she tugs on her skirts holding her back as she tries to hurry offall tears fawning up at her till she takes her in her arms Thats how you look Patroclus streaming live tears. Homer Classics 37
A classic is the term given to any book which comes to represent the whole universe a book on a par with ancient talismans. Italo Calvino Classics 36
When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeablelooking child ever seen. It was true too . . . she was as tyrannical and selfish a little pig as ever lived. Frances Hodgson Burnett Classics 36
Got on Got on Its not a question of getting on. Thats the wrong view altogether. The Classics arent a ladder leading to quick success. Agatha Christie Classics 36
Unasked Unsought Love gives itself but is not bought Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Classics 36
You why are you so afraid of war and slaughter Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you grappling for the ships youd run no risk of death you lack the heart to last it out in combatcoward Homer Classics 34
Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships. Zora Neale Hurston Classics 34

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