“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

#exercises

“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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“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”
- Isaac Asimov.

Translation
#isaacasimov

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“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
- Oscar Wilde.

Translation
#oscarwilde

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“You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake and perhaps as long as eternity too.”
- James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

Translation
#jamesjoyce

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“I didn’t want to distract the people who were saving my life, so I muted my mic and screamed like a little girl. It’s true, you know. In space, no one can hear you scream like a little girl.”
- Andy Weir, The Martian.

Translation
#andyweir

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📓 Vocabulary Revision Tests 19/12 - 11/02
🗒 17 questions · ⏱ ≈ 3 minutes

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“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”
- A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh.

#A1 #quotes #english #aamilne
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“I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.”
- F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Translation
#fscottfitzgerald

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“In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected."
- Charles Dickens, Works of Charles Dickens.

Translation
#charlesdickens

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“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
- Mark Twain.

Translation
#marktwain

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