"I exist in your imagination, and your imagination is part of nature, so I exist in nature.", Anton Chekhov — The Black Monk, "Doctors and kind relations will succeed in stupefying mankind, in making mediocrity pass for genius and in bringing civilisation to ruin.", Anton Chekhov — The Black Monk, "You can think as you like. I exist in your imagination, and your imagination is part of nature, so I exist in nature.", Anton Chekhov — The Black Monk, "Well, rain away, then! Flood the garden, drown me! Damn my luck in this world and the next! Let the artists have me up! Send me to prison! -- to Siberia!", Anton Chekhov — The Darling, "One works and does one's utmost, one wears oneself out, getting no sleep at night, and racks one's brain what to do for the best.", Anton Chekhov — The Darling, "My darling!" sobbed Olenka. "Vanka, my precious, my darling! Why did I ever meet you!", Anton Chekhov — The Darling, "And the Greek master, this man in a case -- would you believe it? -- almost got married.", Anton Chekhov — The Man in the Case, "Belikov is a character of Gogolian absurdity. Even when the weather is fine, he wears galoshes and a padded coat.", Anton Chekhov — The Man in the Case, "It's beyond anything.", Anton Chekhov — The Man in the Case, "Her name sprang to my lips at moments in strange prayers and praises which I myself did not understand. My eyes were often full of tears.", James Joyce — Araby, "She asked me was I going to Araby. I forgot whether I answered yes or no. It would be a splendid bazaar, she said she would love to go.", James Joyce — Araby, "Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.", James Joyce — Araby, "Maria, you are a veritable peace-maker!", James Joyce — Clay, "She took out her purse with the silver clasps and read again the words A Present from Belfast. She was very fond of that purse because Joe had brought it to her five years before.", James Joyce — Clay, "And when she laughed her grey-green eyes sparkled with disappointed shyness and the tip of her nose nearly met the tip of her chin.", James Joyce — Clay, "All the seas of the world tumbled about her heart. He was drawing her into them: he would drown her.", James Joyce — Eveline, "Her eyes gave him no sign of love or farewell or recognition.", James Joyce — Eveline, "Then she would be married—she, Eveline. People would treat her with respect then.", James Joyce — Eveline, "She sat at the window watching the evening invade the avenue.", James Joyce — Eveline, "I swear to you, gentlemen, that being overly conscious is a disease, a genuine, full-fledged disease.", Fyodor Dostoevsky — Notes from Underground, "An intelligent man cannot become anything seriously, and it is only the fool who becomes anything.", Fyodor Dostoevsky — Notes from Underground, "Two times two makes four—why, in my opinion, it's mere insolence. Two times two makes four stands there brazenly with its hands on its hips, blocking your path and spitting at you.", Fyodor Dostoevsky — Notes from Underground, "Every decent man of our time is and must be a coward and a slave.", Fyodor Dostoevsky — Notes from Underground, "For a while I felt that I'd turned her soul inside out and had broken her heart.", Fyodor Dostoevsky — Notes from Underground, "How strange and changeful is life! How small a thing is needed to make or ruin us!", Guy de Maupassant — The Necklace, "She had no proper wardrobe, no jewels, nothing. And those were the only things that she loved - she felt she was made for them.", Guy de Maupassant — The Necklace, "She suffered endlessly, feeling herself born for every delicacy and luxury.", Guy de Maupassant — The Necklace, "The old man is the type and the genius of deep crime. He refuses to be alone. He is the man of the crowd. It will be in vain to follow.", Edgar Allan Poe — The Man of the Crowd, "Ce grand malheur, de ne pouvoir être seul", Edgar Allan Poe — The Man of the Crowd, "In the strange throng of the crowd, I felt a calm and retentive pleasure.", Edgar Allan Poe — The Man of the Crowd, "We live as we dream - alone.", Joseph Conrad — Heart of Darkness, "The horror! The horror!", Joseph Conrad — Heart of Darkness, "She was savage and superb, wild-eyed and magnificent; there was something ominous and stately in her deliberate progress.", Joseph Conrad — Heart of Darkness, "I've seen the devil of violence, and the devil of greed, and the devil of hot desire; but, by all the stars! these were strong, lusty, red-eyed devils.", Joseph Conrad — Heart of Darkness, "My mother, they tell me I am not white. Armand has told me I am not white. For God's sake tell them it is not true.", Kate Chopin — Desiree's Baby, "It is a lie; it is not true, I am white! Look at my hair, it is brown; and my eyes are gray, Armand, you know they are gray. And my skin is fair.", Kate Chopin — Desiree's Baby, "When the baby was about three months old, Desiree awoke one day to the conviction that there was something in the air menacing her peace.", Kate Chopin — Desiree's Baby, "He absented himself from her presence, and she closed her door.", Kate Chopin — Desiree's Baby, "There would be no one to live for her during those coming years; she would live for herself.", Kate Chopin — The Story of an Hour, "Free, free, free!", Kate Chopin — The Story of an Hour, "She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be long.", Kate Chopin — The Story of an Hour, "There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully.", Kate Chopin — The Story of an Hour, "When the storm of grief had spent itself she went away to her room alone.", Kate Chopin — The Story of an Hour, "So the storm passed and every one was happy.", Kate Chopin — The Storm, "The storm's intensity ignites a passion between the former lovers.", Kate Chopin — The Storm, "Don't let anything happen to them.", Kate Chopin — The Storm, "The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame.", Kate Chopin — The Storm, "I've got out at last, in spite of you and Jane. And I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back!", Charlotte Perkins Gilman — The Yellow Wallpaper, "I never saw a worse paper in my life. One of those sprawling flamboyant patterns committing every artistic sin.", Charlotte Perkins Gilman — The Yellow Wallpaper, "There are things in that wallpaper that nobody knows about but me, or ever will.", Charlotte Perkins Gilman — The Yellow Wallpaper, "Personally, I disagree with their ideas.", Charlotte Perkins Gilman — The Yellow Wallpaper, "It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study.", Charlotte Perkins Gilman — The Yellow Wallpaper, "One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug.", Franz Kafka — Metamorphosis, "I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.", Franz Kafka — Metamorphosis, "Was he an animal if music could captivate him so? It seemed to him that he was being shown the way to the unknown nourishment he had been yearning for.", Franz Kafka — Metamorphosis, "Into a room in which Gregor ruled the bare walls all alone, no human being beside Grete was ever likely to set foot.", Franz Kafka — Metamorphosis, "Gregor Samsa symbolizes the futility of life and capitalism.", Franz Kafka — Metamorphosis, "I prefer commencing with the consideration of an effect...Of the innumerable effects, or impressions, of which the heart, the intellect, or (more generally) the soul is susceptible, what one shall I, on the present occasion, select?", Edgar Allan Poe — The Importance of the Single Effect in a Prose Tale, "If any literary work is too long to be read at one sitting, we must be content to dispense with the immensely important effect derivable from unity of impression.", Edgar Allan Poe — The Importance of the Single Effect in a Prose Tale, "A long poem is, in fact, merely a succession of brief ones—that is to say, of brief poetical effects.", Edgar Allan Poe — The Importance of the Single Effect in a Prose Tale, "All intense excitements are, through a psychal necessity, brief.", Edgar Allan Poe — The Importance of the Single Effect in a Prose Tale, "No one point in its composition is referable either to accident or intuition—that the work proceeded step by step, to its completion, with the precision and rigid consequence of a mathematical problem.", Edgar Allan Poe — The Importance of the Single Effect in a Prose Tale, "The deepest problems of modern life flow from the attempt of the individual to maintain the independence and individuality of his existence against the sovereign powers of society.", Georg Simmel — The Metropolis and Mental Life, "The psychological foundation, upon which the metropolitan individuality is erected, is the intensification of emotional life due to the swift and continuous shift of external and internal stimuli.", Georg Simmel — The Metropolis and Mental Life, "Instead of reacting emotionally, the metropolitan type reacts primarily in a rational manner.", Georg Simmel — The Metropolis and Mental Life, "The essence of the blasé attitude is an indifference toward the distinctions between things...the meaning and the value of the distinctions between things, and therewith of the things themselves, are experienced as meaningless.", Georg Simmel — The Metropolis and Mental Life, "Money is concerned only with what is common to all, i.e., with the exchange value which reduces all quality and individuality to a purely quantitative level.", Georg Simmel — The Metropolis and Mental Life, "To the extent that money, with its colourlessness and its indifferent quality, can become a common denominator of all values, it becomes the frightful leveller—it hollows out the core of things, their peculiarities, their specific values and their uniqueness.", Georg Simmel — The Metropolis and Mental Life, "The mutual reserve and indifference, and the intellectual conditions of life in large social units are never more sharply appreciated in their significance for the independence of the individual than in the dense crowds of the metropolis.", Georg Simmel — The Metropolis and Mental Life, "One never feels as lonely and as deserted as in this metropolitan crush of persons.", Georg Simmel — The Metropolis and Mental Life, "Heart of Darkness projects the image of Africa as 'the other world,' the antithesis of Europe and therefore of civilization, a place where man's vaunted intelligence and refinement are finally mocked by triumphant beastiality.", Chinua Achebe — An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness, "Going up that river was like traveling back to the earliest beginnings of the world.", Chinua Achebe — An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness, "What thrilled you was just the thought of their humanity—like yours.... Ugly.", Chinua Achebe — An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness, "He was there below me and, upon my word, to look at him was as edifying as seeing a dog in a parody of breeches and a feather hat walking on his hind legs.", Chinua Achebe — An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness, "Africa as setting and backdrop which eliminates the African as human factor. Africa as a metaphysical battlefield devoid of all recognizable humanity, into which the wandering European enters at his peril.", Chinua Achebe — An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness, "Can nobody see the preposterous and perverse arrogance in thus reducing Africa to the role of props for the break-up of one petty European mind?", Chinua Achebe — An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness, "The real question is the dehumanization of Africa and Africans which this age-long attitude has fostered and continues to foster in the world.", Chinua Achebe — An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness, "The question is whether a novel which celebrates this dehumanization, which depersonalizes a portion of the human race, can be called a great work of art. My answer is: No, it cannot.", Chinua Achebe — An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness, "For many years I suffered from a severe and continuous nervous breakdown tending to melancholia—and beyond.", Charlotte Perkins Gilman — Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper, "This wise man put me to bed and applied the rest cure...sent me home with solemn advice to 'live as domestic a life as far as possible,' to 'have but two hours' intellectual life a day,' and 'never to touch pen, brush, or pencil again' as long as I lived.", Charlotte Perkins Gilman — Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper, "I went home and obeyed those directions for some three months, and came so near the borderline of utter mental ruin that I could see over.", Charlotte Perkins Gilman — Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper, "Using the remnants of intelligence that remained, and helped by a wise friend, I cast the noted specialist's advice to the winds and went to work again—work, the normal life of every human being; work, in which is joy and growth and service, without which one is a pauper and a parasite.", Charlotte Perkins Gilman — Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper, "Being naturally moved to rejoicing by this narrow escape, I wrote The Yellow Wallpaper, with its embellishments and additions, to carry out the ideal...and sent a copy to the physician who so nearly drove me mad.", Charlotte Perkins Gilman — Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper, "It has, to my knowledge, saved one woman from a similar fate—so terrifying her family that they let her out into normal activity and she recovered.", Charlotte Perkins Gilman — Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper, "Many years later I was told that the great specialist had admitted to friends of his that he had altered his treatment of neurasthenia since reading The Yellow Wallpaper.", Charlotte Perkins Gilman — Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper, "It was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked.", Charlotte Perkins Gilman — Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper.

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