“Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.”
- The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

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“Wish me everything that you can wish for the woman you dearly love, and I have as good as got it, John. I have better than got it, John.”

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“There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.”

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Take a walk around Victorian London with this look at Charles Dickens's "City of the Absent"
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The day I met Christina Rossetti.


Literary pilgrimages, even unexpected ones, help re-humanise authors who have become hard too reach because the pedestals they’ve been put on are too high.



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“Gratitude is a divine emotion. It fills the heart, not to bursting; it warms it, but not to fever. I like to taste leisurely of bliss. Devoured in haste, I do not know its flavor.”

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“After a sharp inward struggle, he concluded to stay and see it out. He should despise himself, more than he cared to face, if he gave in now.”

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