📓 Vocabulary Revision Tests 15/11 - 03/12
🗒 18 questions  ·  ⏱ ≈ 3 minutes

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“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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“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
- F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Translation
#fscottfitzgerald

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“To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?”
- Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead.

Translation
#aynrand

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“But I am I. And I won't subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind”
- Jack London, Martin Eden.

Translation
#jacklondon

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Al grew tense over the wheel. A little rattle had developed in the engine. He speeded up and the rattle increased. He retarded his spark and listened, and then he speeded up for a moment and listened. The rattle increased to a metallic pounding. Al blew his horn and pulled the car to the side of the road. Ahead the truck pulled up and then backed slowly. Three cars raced by, westward, and each one blew its horn and the last driver leaned out and yelled, "Where the hell ya think you're stoppin'?"
Tom backed the truck close, and then he got out and walked to the touring car. From the back of the loaded truck heads looked down. Al retarded his spark and listened to his idling motor. Tom asked, "What's a matter, Al?"
Al speeded the motor. "Listen to her." The rattling pound was louder now
- John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath.

Translation
#johnsteinbeck

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“It's not the sort of night for bed, anyhow.”
- Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows.

Translation
#kennethgrahame

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“The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion.”
- William M. Thackeray, Vanity Fair.

Translation
#williammthackeray

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“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
- Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own.

Translation
#virginiawoolf

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📓 Vocabulary Revision Tests 04/12 - 17/12
🗒 17 questions  ·  ⏱ ≈ 3 minutes

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“But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world.”
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince.

#B1 #quotes #english #antoinedesaintexupéry
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“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
- Charles Dickens, Great Expectations.

Translation
#charlesdickens

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“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
- Frank Herbert, Dune.

Translation
#frankherbert

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“Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,
For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
And dance upon the mountains like a flame.”
- William Butler Yeats,, The Land of Heart's Desire.

Translation
#williambutleryeats

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“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”
- J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan.

#A2 #quotes #english #jmbarrie
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“I'll be looking for you, Will, every moment, every single moment. And when we do find each other again, we'll cling together so tight that nothing and no one'll ever tear us apart. Every atom of me and every atom of you... We'll live in birds and flowers and dragonflies and pine trees and in clouds and in those little specks of light you see floating in sunbeams... And when they use our atoms to make new lives, they wont' just be able to take one, they'll have to take two, one of you and one of me, we'll be joined so tight...”
- Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials.

Translation
#philippullman

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“I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.”
- Lyman Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

#A2 #quotes #english #lymanfrankbaum
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“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is hard business. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
- Rudyard Kipling.

Translation
#rudyardkipling

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“Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life - and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.”
- Dean Koontz, Fear Nothing.

#B1 #quotes #english #deankoontz
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