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The Literature Classics


My fascination with women started at a very young age, probably as early as I could hold a pencil. At first it was princesses and fairies, soon it turned into fashionistas, and later they became mature and sophisticated women.

When I became an illustrator, women were already central to my signature style. Back then, I used very few shapes and played with negative space to get to the essence of femininity. I wanted my characters to feel universal and almost anonymous by focusing all my energy on a few strokes and details to convey the overall form.

As my interests evolved, so did my style. I started approaching female characters in more detail, bringing in shadow and volume, and in doing so infused the women I drew with more life and personality. Suddenly, it wasn’t about paring down conventional beauty, it was about telling a story.

The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka

“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”


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Dracula

Bram Stocker

“Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me! How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.”

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The Awakening

Kate Chopin

“I would give up the unessential; I would give up my money, I would give up my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself. I can't make it more clear; it's only something I am beginning to comprehend, which is revealing itself to me.”

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The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty."

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The Art of War

Sun Tzu

"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle."

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Mrs Dalloway

Virginia Woolf

"Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. For Lucy had her work cut out for her.”

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Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë

“If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”

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The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. "Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”

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Orlando

Virginia Woolf

“No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high.”

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To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf

“What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.”

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Persuasion

Jane Austen

“I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever."

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The Scarlett Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne

“She could no longer borrow from the future to ease her present grief.”

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Frankenstein

Mary Shelley

“I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.”

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Little Women

Louisa May Alcott

“I want to do something splendid...something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what, but I'm on the watch for it and mean to astonish you all someday.”

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The Sun Also Rises

Ernest Hemingway

“Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?”

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Northanger Abbey

Jane Austen

“No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.”

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The adventures of Alice in wonderland

Lewis Carroll

"Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

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Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

“It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky, up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made, or only just happened- Jim he allowed they was made, but I allowed they happened; I judged it would have took too long to make so many.”

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Bewulf

“The Almighty Judge of good deeds and bad, the Lord God, Head of the Heavens and High King of the World, was unknown to them. Oh, cursed is he who in time of trouble had to thrust his soul into the fire’s embrace, forfeiting help; he has nowhere to turn. But blessed is he who after death can approach the Lord and find friendship in the Father’s embrace.”

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Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë

"Whereas I am hot, and fire dissolves ice. The blaze there has thawed all the snow from your cloak; by the same token, it has streamed on to my floor, and made it like a trampled street. As you hope ever to be forgiven, Mr. Rivers, the high crime and misdemeanour of spoiling a sanded kitchen, tell me what I wish to know."

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Mansfield park

Jane Austen

“There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.”

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