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Alice in Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass

 Lewis Carroll
 

Important Quotations Explained

 
1. “Who in the world am I?” Ah, that's the great puzzle.
 
 
2. Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the afterâ‘time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her childhood; and how she would gather about her other little children, and make their eyes bright and eager with many a strange tale, perhaps even with the dream of Wonderland of long ago; and how she would feel with all their simple sorrows, and find a pleasure in all their simple joys, remembering her own childâ‘life, and the happy summer days.
 
 
3. It's a great huge game of chess that's being played—all over the world—if this is the world at all, you know.
 
 
4. Of all the strange things that Alice saw in her journey Through The Lookingâ‘Glass, this was the one that she always remembered most clearly. Years afterward she could bring the whole scene back again, as if it had been yesterday—the mild blue eyes and kindly smile of the Knight—the setting sun gleaming through his hair, and shining on his armour in a blaze of light that quite dazzled her—the horse quietly moving about, with the reins hanging loose on his neck, cropping the grass at her feet—and the black shadows of the forest behind—all this she took in like a picture, as, watching the strange pair, and listening, in a halfâ‘dream, to the melancholy music of the song.
 
 
5. Life, what is it but a dream?
 
 
 
 
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