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“Call me Ishmael.”

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

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…”

“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”

“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born…”

“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.”

“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.”

“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.”

“Mother died today. Or, maybe, yesterday; I can’t be sure.”

“Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, he was arrested.”

“Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather…”

“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.”

“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.”

“All this happened, more or less.”

“I am an invisible man.”

“Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.”

“He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.”

“It was a pleasure to burn.”

“In a village of La Mancha, the name of which I have no desire to call to mind, there lived not long since one of those gentlemen that keep a lance in the lance-rack…”

“To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.”

“A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories.”

“There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.”

“Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting.”

“It was love at first sight.”

“You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.”

“The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.”

“It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs.”

“The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon.”

“What’s it going to be then, eh?”

“1801. I have just returned from a visit to my landlord – the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.”