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Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren’t. I’m not surprised some people prefer books. Books make sense of life. The only problem is that the lives they make sense of are other people’s lives, never your own. ”
These "I love you" quotes and short sayings, from the likes of authors, poets, and celebrities, will put your feelings for him or her into romantic words. ... "I will love you all my life and when ...
Gulliver's Travels, originally Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships is a 1726 prose satire [1] [2] by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, satirising both human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre.
I. I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul. I have always depended on the kindness of strangers; I killed seven with one blow! I once was lost, but now am found
Classic books have stood the test of time for a reason. They're groundbreaking, have wide appeal, and are worth a second (and third) read. The post 21 Classic Books Everyone Should Read at Least ...
The phrase is used in reverse as ἰατρεῖον ψυχῆς as a motto for Carolina Rediviva, a university library in Uppsala, and is echoed in the motto of the American Philological Association, "ψυχῆς ἰατρὸς τὰ γράμματα" ("literature is the soul's physician").
William Dean Howells was the first American author to bring a realist aesthetic to the literature of the United States. His stories of 1850s Boston upper-crust life are highly regarded among scholars of American fiction. His most popular novel, The Rise of Silas Lapham, depicts a man who falls from materialistic fortune by his own mistakes.
Arabian Sands is a 1959 book by explorer and travel writer Wilfred Thesiger.The book focuses on the author's travels in the Arabian Peninsula between 1945 and 1950, and details his two crossings of the Empty Quarter undertaken between 1946 and 1948.