“How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.”
- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein.

Translation
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“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
- Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing.

#B1 #quotes #english #raybradbury
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“All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise the social structure would fall into pieces the first day. We must act in one another's presence just as we must wear clothes. It is for the best”
- O. Henry.

Translation
#ohenry

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📓 Vocabulary Revision Tests 03/04 - 15/04
🗒 17 questions  ·  ⏱ ≈ 3 minutes

#exercises

If one day you feel like crying
Call me
I don’t promise you that
I will make you laugh
But I can cry with you

If one day you want to run away
Don’t be afraid to call me
I don’t promise to ask you to stop
But I can run with you

If one day you don’t
Want to listen to anybody
Call me and
I promise to be very quiet

If you ever need me
Call
And I will be by your side
But

If one day you call
And there is no answer
Come fast to see me
Perhaps I need you
- Robert J. Lavery.

#A2 #quotes #english #robertjlavery
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“The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor: he took my measure anew every time he saw me, whilst all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.”
- George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman.

Translation
#georgebernardshaw

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“Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.
...
Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays.

Translation
#ralphwaldoemerson

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"I'm Irish!...When I feel well I feel better than anyone, when I am in pain I yell at the top of my lungs, and when I am dead I shall be deader than anybody."
- Morgan Llywelyn.

Translation
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Masterpiece! Simple but very deep animated film with simple vocabulary. Based on the best-selling book by Charlie Mackesy.

“What is the bravest thing you've ever said? asked the boy.
'Help,' said the horse.
'Asking for help isn't giving up,' said the horse. 'It's refusing to give up.”

“Always remember you matter, you're important and you are loved, and you bring to this world things no one else can.” 🦊

“We have such a long way to go", sighed the boy
"Yes, but look how far we've come", said the horse”
- Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse.

Translation
#charliemackesy

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“Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.”
- Frank McCourt.

Translation
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“Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three.”
- Joseph Heller, Catch-22.

Translation
#josephheller

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“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
- Mark Twain.

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"Some of the animals remembered -- or thought they remembered -- that the Sixth Commandment decreed, 'No animal shall kill any other animal.' And though no one cared to mention it in the hearing of the pigs or the dogs, it was felt that the killings which had taken place did not square with this."
- George Orwell, Animal Farm.

#quotes #english #georgeorwell
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“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.”
- Robert Louis Stevenson.

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“Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.”
- Margery Williams, Velveteen Rabbit.

#quotes #english #margerywilliams
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🇯🇵 В ноябре 1970 года Юкио Мисиме отправил редактору свой последний роман "Падение ангела", затем взял в заложники командующего базой сухопутных войск с целью государственного переворота, а после того как попытка обернулась неудачей оборвал свою жизнь совершив рутуальное самоубийство, сэппуку.

Таким образом Юкио Мисиме поставил точку в своей жизни, навсегда записанной в истории мировой литературы. Эстет, воспевающий красоту, но в тоже время злой сатирик, обличающий пустоту современного общества. Великолепный психолог, создавший глубокие, понятные образы. Ярый реваншист, горящий идеей нового века самураев. С помощью его произведений можно погрузится в то время через призму его идей, идентичности.

На канале Yukio Mishima можно ознакомится с творчеством этого противоречивого, но поистине значимого японского писателя, прочитать отрывки его книг, писем, увидеть фотографии разных лет

“The same substance composes us — the tree overhead, the stone beneath us, the bird, the beast, the star — we are all one, all moving to the same end.”
- P. L. Travers, Mary Poppins.

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“No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.”
- John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent.

#A2 #quotes #english #johnsteinbeck
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