AP Literature - Quotes Flashcards
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9594536170 | Long Day's Journey into Night | 1) "I really love fog. [...] It hides you from the world and the world from you. (You feel that everything has changed, and nothing is what it seemed to be. No one can find or touch you any more)." 2) "That's what I wanted—to be alone with myself in another world where truth is untrue and life can hide from itself." | 0 | |
9594562300 | To the Lighthouse | 1) "The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare." 2) "the words of some old cradle song, murmured by nature, "I am guarding you—I am your support" 3) "[nature] remorselessly beat the measure of life, made one think of the destruction of the island and its engulfment in the sea" | 1 | |
9594562301 | Robinson Crusoe | 1) "fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself." 2) "I smil'd to my self at the sight of this money, O drug! said I aloud, what art thou good for? ... one of those knives is worth all this heap" | 2 | |
9594562302 | Invisible Man | 1) "I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me." 2) "I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?" 3) "Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat" | 3 | |
9594563671 | The Count of Monte Cristo | 1) "All human wisdom is contained in these two words - Wait and Hope" 2) "The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates" 3) "To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others." | 4 |