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“We are living in a world in which nobody is free, in which hardly anybody is secure, in which it is almost impossible to be honest and to remain alive.”
― The Road to Wigan Pier
― The Road to Wigan Pier

“It was the central thing; it was the way you understood yourself; if it never happened to you, not ever, you would be like a mutant, a creature from outer space. Everyone knew that. Falling”
― The Handmaid's Tale
― The Handmaid's Tale

“She thinks of how much more space a being occupies in life than it does in death; how much illusion of size is contained in gestures and movements, in breathing. Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.”
― The Hours
― The Hours

“It's better to be fooled than to be suspicious.”
― Howards End
― Howards End

“Thus, neither having the clue to the other’s secret, they were respectively puzzled at what each revealed, and awaited new knowledge of each other’s character and moods without attempting to pry into each other’s history.”
― Tess of the D'Urbervilles
― Tess of the D'Urbervilles
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