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Then he looked at Lord Henry. “Dorian Gray is my dearest friend,” he said. “He has a simple and a beautiful nature. Your aunt was quite right in what she said of him. Don’t spoil him for me. Don’t try to influence him. Your influence would be bad. The world is wide, and has many marvellous people in..

There is nothing more necessary to appear to have than this last quality, inasmuch as men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, because it belongs to everybody to see you, to few to come in touch with you. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are, and those few ..

“My mind,” he said, “rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artifil stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation...

The novel opens with Josef K.’s sudden arrest in his room at his lodging house on the morning of his birthday. Two guards inform him that he is under arrest, but they don’t tell him on what charges, nor do they know what the charges are. K. is then taken next door to the room of another tenant, Fraü..

Mrs. Grose was not too bewildered instinctively to protest. “Ah, how CAN you?”“Because I’m clear. Flora doesn’t want me to know.”“It’s only then to spare you.”“No, no—there are depths, depths! The more I go over it, the more I see in it, and the more I see in it, the more I fear. I don’t know what I..

“Well, Holmes,” I murmured, “have you found anything out?”He stood beside me in silence, his candle in his hand. Then the tall, lean figure inclined towards me. “I say, Watson,” he whispered, “would you be afraid to sleep in the same room with a lunatic, a man with softening of the brain, an idiot w..

No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost a..

‘How much better is silence; the coffee-cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee-cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself. Do not come and worry m..

Before Rowland could reply a shout from the crow’s-nest split the air.“Ice,” yelled the lookout; “ice ahead. Iceberg. Right under the bows.” The first officer ranamidships, and the captain, who had remained there, sprang to the engine-room telegraph, and this time the lever was turned. But in five s..

Throw the lumber over, man! Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need—a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough..

"Çocuk edebiyatinin sampiyonu" Yalvaç Ural'dan merakli mi merakli, renkli mi renkli bir "ansiklopedi", bir "okul disi" bilgi merkezi!Bataklik sularinin acimasiz kahramani timsah dislerini nasil temizliyor?Aktör köpek sahnede ne yapiyor?Gözyaslarinin ve kahkahalarin tek sahibi insan mi? Üzüldügünde ..

For now she need not think about anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of—to think; well, not even to think. To be silent; to be ne. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to..