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Quote by Elizabeth Drew
The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live mo

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it. – Elizabeth Drew

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Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation. – Elizabeth Drew

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Travel
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Elizabeth Drew
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The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and mangled mind leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict. – Elizabeth Drew

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Prison
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Elizabeth Drew
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Literary
category

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

Category:
Literary

This lifes dim windows of the soul
Distorts the heavens from pole to pole
And leads you to believe a lie
When you see with, not through, the eye. – William Blake

Category:
Literary

If the radiance of a thousand suns
Were to burst at once into the sky
That would be like the splendor of the Mighty one —
I am become Death,
The shatterer of Worlds. – Hindu Spiritual

Category:
Literary

Avarice, envy, pride,
Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all
On Fire. – Dante Alighieri

Category:
Literary

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