“Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety.”
- Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare

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“The expressions of those moving about a picture gallery show ill-concealed disappointment that they only find pictures there.”
- One-Way Street and Other Writings by Walter Benjamin

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"When people are happy they should not try to become any happier."
- Irretrievable by Theodor Fontane

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“Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever.”
- Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

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“I must try this again, I thought; I must try again someday to sit still and not say a word. Maybe when I'm dead.”
- Heartburn by Nora Ephron

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“Broken hearts, unrequited love and inconsolable misery are subjects which, most fortunately, I have only ever read in books.”
- Sanditon by Jane Austen

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“But a lonely man is an unnatural man, and soon comes to perplexity. From perplexity to fantasy. From fantasy to madness.”
- My Cousin Rachel by Daphne Du Maurier

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“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.”
- The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

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"I lost all sense of proportion once I started talking about my beloved project. I lost all my usual lightness of touch. I saturated people with unwanted information."
- The Fate of Mary Rose by Caroline Blackwood

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“Sometimes the things we think are lost are only hidden, waiting to be rediscovered.”
- Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

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“Kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever...”
- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos

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“So then you’re free?’
‘Yes, I’m free,’ said Karl, and nothing seemed more worthless than his freedom.”
- Amerika by Franz Kafka

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“Experience, Major Dodd, has long informed me that no man ever expresses admiration unless he wants something out of the person admired.”
- Mary Anne by Daphne Du Maurier

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"From the oval–shaped flower–bed there rose perhaps a hundred stalks spreading into heart–shaped or tongue–shaped leaves half way up and unfurling at the tip..."
- Kew Gardens by Virginia Woolf

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“There are certain half-dreaming moods of mind in which we naturally steal away ... and seek some quiet haunt where we may indulge our reveries and build our air castles undisturbed.”
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

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"It's no use to worry about what people think. I never do. I used to. But when I saw that they'd really rather think wrong than right I gave it up."
- The Ladies of Lyndon by Margaret Kennedy

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“A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you are loved by others”
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

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“We have a name for your disease. We call it a hyper-aesthetic one. You have been encouraged to over-indulge yourself in literature; and have inflamed your organs of fancy.”
- Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

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Our good behaviour went on and on, endless as the days. No one spoke of the pain we were sharing. Our discretion was almost complete."
- Good Behaviour by Molly Keane

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“A whole Gothic world had come to grief...there was now no armour glittering through the forest glades, no embroidered feet on the green sward; the cream and dappled unicorns had fled...”
- A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh

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