Citas de libros

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Meditations

You have power over your mind - not outside events.

The line states the central Stoic boundary between judgment and circumstance.

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Meditations

Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.

Marcus moves ethics from theory to immediate action.

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Pride and Prejudice

It is a truth universally acknowledged...

The opening line frames marriage as a social marketplace before the story complicates that assumption.

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Pride and Prejudice

Till this moment, I never knew myself.

Elizabeth's turning point is not just romantic; it is an admission that self-knowledge arrives late.

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Frankenstein

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

The creature turns abandonment into a dark kind of agency.

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Frankenstein

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example...

Victor frames his own life as a warning against uncontrolled ambition.

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On the Origin of Species

From so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful...

Darwin closes with an image of abundance rather than a purely technical conclusion.

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On the Origin of Species

Natural selection acts only by taking advantage of slight successive variations...

This line captures the book's commitment to gradualism.

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

You see, but you do not observe.

The line defines Holmes's central distinction between passive looking and disciplined attention.

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

When you have eliminated the impossible...

The maxim captures the series' confidence in logical narrowing.

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Siddhartha

Wisdom cannot be imparted.

The novel's governing claim is that instruction alone cannot complete understanding.

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Siddhartha

The river is everywhere.

The river condenses the book's sense of time, unity, and patient listening.

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Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

The creature's warning to Victor reveals how his rejection has transformed potential gentleness into calculated menace, showing the cost of abandonment.

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Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows.

Victor's reflection after Justine's execution captures the psychological paralysis of guilt and the weight of unspoken truth.

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Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus

I have love in me the likes of which you can neither imagine nor rage and murder equally. But that is one component of the nature of a creature who was created to be the instrument of destruction.

The creature's paradox—containing both love and destruction—reveals that his violence stems not from innate evil but from the contradiction of his creation.

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Pride and Prejudice

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

The opening line parodies the transactional view of marriage while introducing the novel's central preoccupation with matrimony and society's expectations.

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Pride and Prejudice

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

Elizabeth's response to Darcy's slight at the Meryton assembly establishes her quick wit and sets the tone for their early antagonism.

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Pride and Prejudice

You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you.

Darcy's confession during his second proposal reveals the transformation in his character and his complete surrender to love.

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Meditations

Thus the most religious of emperors came of the blood of the most pious of early kings.

Establishes the connection between Marcus Aurelius's lineage and his spiritual reputation.

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Meditations

Acts of "rightness" or "straightness."

A definition of moral action derived from the Greek term 'katorqwseiz'.

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Meditations

paltry breath bearing up corpses

A poetic description of the physical body contrasted with the life force.