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“Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either extreme egotism, selfishness, evil -- or else an absolute ignorance.”
- The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
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“There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.”
- Lysistrata by Aristophanes
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“Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.”
- Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes
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"The Dipper looked like something out of Dickens: Long overcoat flapping around his ankles, big mop of hair standing up stiff with dirt, wide-opened surprised look on his face."
- The Grass Arena by John Healy
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"I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow."
- All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
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"Language is perhaps the greatest single gift and achievement of the human organism in the natural order. Consequently, what we do with language...is never indifferent."
- The Orphic Voice by Elizabeth Sewell
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“Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay
To mould me man? Did I solicit thee
From darkness to promote me?”
- Paradise Lost by John Milton
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“...we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.”
- A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
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“When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.”
- Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf
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“I hate the uneducated and the ignorant. I hate the pompous and the phoney... I hate all ordinary dull little people who aren't ashamed of being dull and little.”
- The Collector by John Fowles
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“And its wonder lies in brevity: by the time you start reading, it's already over, which only makes you ponder its meaning all the more.”
- Written on Water by Eileen Chang
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“Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”
- Ulysses by James Joyce
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“Only those who are capable of silliness can be called truly intelligent.”
- Christopher and His Kind by Christopher Isherwood
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“Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.”
- The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
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