“Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety, and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. Bless us, if it may be, in all our innocent endeavours. If it may not, give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temparate in wrath, and in all changes of fortune, and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving to one another.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson.

Translation
#robertlouisstevenson

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“I drink to make other people more interesting.”
- Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea.

Translation
#ernesthemingway

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“The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training.”
- Frank Herbert, Dune.

Translation
#frankherbert

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#fun #georgeorwell

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”
- Charles Dickens.

Translation
#charlesdickens

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“Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.”
- Jonathan Swift.

Translation
#jonathanswift

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“I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.”
- Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged.

Translation
#aynrand

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“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
- Joseph Campbell.

Translation
#josephcampbell

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“She wondered whether there would ever come an hour in her life when she didn't think of him -- didn't speak to him in her head, didn't relive every moment they'd been together, didn't long for his voice and his hands and his love. She had never dreamed of what it would feel like to love someone so much; of all the things that had astonished her in her adventures, that was what astonished her the most. She thought the tenderness it left in her heart was like a bruise that would never go away, but she would cherish it forever.”
- Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials.

Translation
#philippullman

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“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
- George Orwell, 1984.

Translation
#georgeorwell

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“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
- Roald Dahl.

Translation
#roalddahl

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When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (maybe) spoke with the dead.

On Sept. 7, 1919, the 60-year-old Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, doctor, lecturer, seafarer, sportsman, indefatigable social campaigner—and globally renowned author of the Sherlock Holmes tales—shared the platform of a spiritualist rally at a hotel in the naval town of Portsmouth, England, with a 38-year-old spiritual medium named Evan Powell.

#arthurconandoyle

“It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head.”
- Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes.

#B1 #quotes #english #frankmccourt
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📓 Vocabulary Revision Tests 15/11 - 03/12
🗒 18 questions  ·  ⏱ ≈ 3 minutes

#exercises

“And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn’t crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I cried because he would never do them again, he would never carve another piece of wood or help us raise doves and pigeons in the backyard or play the violin the way he did, or tell us jokes the way he did. He was part of us and when he died, all the actions stopped dead and there was no one to do them the way he did. He was individual. He was an important man. I’ve never gotten over his death. Often I think what wonderful carvings never came to birth because he died. How many jokes are missing from the world, and how many homing pigeons untouched by his hands? He shaped the world. He did things to the world. The world was bankrupted of ten million fine actions the night he passed on.”
- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451.

Translation
#raybradbury

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