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Thus terminating the interview, during which both ladies had trembled very much, and been marvellously polite--certain indications that they were within an inch of a very desperate quarrel... Charles Dickens
There would be many crimes and errors which it would be beyond his power to commit, simply because they were nameless and therefore unimaginable. George Orwell
He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety. Jorge Luis Borges
She is a mortal danger without meaning to be one; she's exquisite without giving ita thought; shes a trap set by nature, a rose in which love lies in ambush! Anyone who has seen her smile has known perfection. She creates grace without movement and makes all divinity fit into her slightest gesture. And neither Venus in her shell, nor Diana striding in the great, blossoming forest, can compare to her when she goes through the streets of paris in her sedan chair. Edmond Rostand
Stuart Chase quote: "Common sense is that which tells us the world is flat."
Common sense is that which tells us the world is flat. Stuart Chase
Walter Raleigh quote: "The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are..."
The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution. Walter Raleigh
People have obsessions and fears and passions which they don't admit to. I think every character is interesting and has extremes. It's the novelist privilege to see how odd everyone is. Iris Murdoch
The gunslinger waited for the time of the drawing and dreamed his long dreams of the Dark Tower, to which he would some day come at dusk and approach, winding his horn, to do some unimaginable final battle. Stephen King
Lee Jordan was finding it difficult not to take sides.'So - after that obvious and disgusting bit of cheating -''Jordan!' growled Professor McGonagall.'I mean after that open and revolting foul -''Jordan, I'm warning you -''All right, all right. Flint nearly kills the Gryffindor Seeker, which could happen to anyone, I'm sure, so a penalty to Gryffindor, taken by Spinnet, who puts it away, no trouble, and we continue play, Gryffindor still in possession. J. K. Rowling
I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up. Henry David Thoreau
Plutarch quote: "Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together..."
Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yieldthemselves up when taken little by little. Plutarch
Paduk and all the rest wrote on steadily, but Krug's failure was complete, a baffling and hideous disaster, for he had been busy becoming an elderly man instead of learning the simple but now unobtainable passages which they, mere boys, had memorized. Vladimir Nabokov
A man cannot live intensely except at the cost of the self. Now the bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self (rudimentary as his may be). And so at the cost of intensity he achieves his own preservation and security. His harvest is a quiet mind which he prefers to being possessed by God, as he does comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to that deathly inner consuming fire. The bourgeois is consequently by nature a creature of weak impulses,... Herman Hesse
Alfred Lord Tennyson quote: "That which we are, we are."
That which we are, we are. Alfred Lord Tennyson
She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops, and loved at crises. Thomas Hardy

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