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Dracula / Perception and Awareness

Author: Bram Stoker (Gutenberg)  | Themes: perception, truth, empathy, consciousness, existence  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-02-03

You do not let your eyes see nor your ears hear, and that which is outside your daily life is not of account to you. Do you not think that there are t...
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Dracula / Bravery and Kindness

Author: Bram Stoker (Gutenberg)  | Themes: empathy, friendship, sacrifice, nostalgia, emotional connections  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-26

It seemed but poor comfort to so brave and unselfish a soul, and impulsively I bent over and kissed him. The tears rose in his eyes, and there was a m...
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Frankenstein / Transformed Perception

Author: Mary Shelley (Gutenberg)  | Themes: injustice, empathy, transformation, human nature, societal decay  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-21

Before, I looked upon the accounts of vice and injustice that I read in books or heard from others as tales of ancient days or imaginary evils; at lea...
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Frankenstein / Isolation and Virtue

Author: Mary Shelley (Gutenberg)  | Themes: solitude, connection, alienation, virtue, empathy  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-10

My vices are the children of a forced solitude that I abhor, and my virtues will necessarily arise when I live in communion with an equal. I shall fee...
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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Desolation and Pity

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: isolation, human struggle, empathy, environmental degradation  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-18

The country we had reached was already nearly a desert. Here and there could be seen an isolated farm, some solitary bur, or Icelandic house, built of...