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12 College Moments Described Classic Lit Quotes

"We learn from failure, not from success!" - Dracula by Bram Stoker

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12 College Moments Described Classic Lit Quotes
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I am an avid reader of everything and this includes classic literature. Though most people pass them off as old and boring books, I find them to be beautifully written and still relevant to today's world. More specifically, today's college students.

1. "I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane." - Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Freshman year.

2. "I have not the pleasure of understanding you." - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

When your professor might as well be speaking a different language.

3. "Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short." - Animal Farm by George Orwell

How you feel during midterms and/or finals.

4. "I am alone and miserable. Only someone as ugly as I am could love me." - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

When all of your friends have significant others and you don't.

5. "It would be nice if something made sense for a change." - Alice In Wonderland by Lewis Carrol

Warning: this is a constant sentiment that applies all the time and to everything.

6. "There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends." - The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

You know what I'm talking about.

7. "There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights." - Dracula by Bram Stoker

When you get to see your best friend after a long week.

8. "I have been made to learn that the doom and burden of our life is bound forever on man's shoulders; and when the attempt is made to cast it off, it but returns upon us with more unfamiliar and more awful pressure." - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

When you put off your homework for the last minute.

9. "There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep." - The Odyssey by Homer

When nothing can get in the way of your afternoon nap.

10. "Insanity is contagious." - Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

The atmosphere at any and every sports event.

11. "With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come." - The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

Time spent with roommates, friends, etc.

12. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." - A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

An accurate summary of college.

Author's note: all of these books are fantastic and I highly recommend them.

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