“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.

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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.

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“If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. I'll love your face no matter what it looks like. Because it's yours.”
- Stephen King, 11/22/63.

#A2 #quotes #english #stephenking
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“Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.”
- Jack London.

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“I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way. Whatever may happen to me, thank God that I can read, that I have truly touched the minds of other men.”
- Walter Tevis, Mockingbird.

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"I look around, I look around, I see a lot of new faces."

Hello, my dear friends!
After a long silence, this channel is waking up again!

I'm so grateful to every single one of you — to my loyal friends who are still here, and to the new faces who found something special in these pages. I'm bursting with ideas on how we can dive deeper into the worlds of English and literature together, and I can't wait to share them with you.

Regular posts will start this Monday. The chatbot isn't up and running just yet, but it will be available soon (I'll keep you posted) — you'll be able to review vocabulary with it, and we plan to add even more features down the line.

I'm all ears for your feedback, suggestions, or ideas — please feel free to send them to the group chat. Looking forward to reconnecting with you all!

P.S. If you happen to run a channel yourself, no matter the size, I would be incredibly grateful if you shared a quote from here that speaks to you. Let's spread the love for great words together!

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“Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!”
- Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights.

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“I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use -- silence, exile, and cunning.”
- James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

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“Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?"
"Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you.”
- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451.

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“..the world insisting it is not a dream and yet to the looker there is no escaping the dream and the price of life that is suffering, and she sees her children delivered into a world of devotion and love and sees them damned to a world of terror, wishing for such a world to end, wishing for the world its destruction, and she looks at her infant son, this child who remains an innocent and she sees how she has fallen afoul of herself and grows aghast, seeing that out of terror comes pity and out of pity comes love and out of love the world can be redeemed again, and she can see that the world does not end, that it is vanity to think the world will end during your lifetime in some sudden event, that what ends is your life and only your life, that what is sung by the prophets is but the same song sung across time, the coming of the sword, the world devoured by fire, the sun gone down into the earth at noon and the world cast in darkness, the fury of some god incarnate in the mouth of the prophet raging at the wickedness that will be cast out of sight, and the prophet sings not of the end of the world but of what has been done and what will be done and what is being done to some but not others, that the world is always ending over and over again in one place but not another and that the end of the world is always a local event, it comes to your country and visits your town and knocks on the door of your house and becomes to others but some distant warning, a brief report on the news, an echo of events that has passed into folklore”
- Paul Lynch, Prophet Song.

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“Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.”
- William M. Thackeray.

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“Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
"Pooh!" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.”
- A. A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner.

#A2 #quotes #english #aamilne
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“Monsters are real. Ghosts are too. They live inside of us, and sometimes, they win.”
- Stephen King, The Shining.

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“A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to. And there were no limits to anything. And the people of the world were good and handsome. And I was not afraid any more.”
- John Steinbeck, East of Eden.

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“I have spread my dreams under your feet.
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
- William Butler Yeats.

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“Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself.”
- John Green.

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“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.”
- William Blake, Auguries of Innocence.

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“She had tricked him. She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then before he was really at home in it but too late to go back, she had left him stranded there--like an astronaut wandering about on the moon. Alone.”
- Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia.

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