"On Saturday they go up the Junction in their clattering stilettos, think about new frocks on H.P., drink tea in the cafe, and talk about their boyfriends."
- Up the Junction by Nell Dunn

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“The ancients waited for cherry blossoms, grieved when they were gone, and lamented their passing in countless poems."
- The Makioka Sisters by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

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“Do not mistake the rule of force for true power. Men are not shaped by force.”
- The Bacchae by Euripides

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“Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.”
- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

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“I think we are just insects, we live a bit and then die and that’s the lot. There’s no mercy in things. There’s not even a Great Beyond. There’s nothing.”
- The Collector by John Fowles

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“I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.”
- Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

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“Her entire character consisted of a pile of memories without a pattern or a plan.”
- The Trouble with Happiness by Tove Ditlevsen

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“Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.”
- Orlando by Virginia Woolf

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“I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began.”
- Cider with Rose by Laurie Lee

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“I’m the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I’m the type of person who doesn’t find it painful to be alone”
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver

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“Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.”
- Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

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“Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.”
- Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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“There is nothing more tragic to Agnes's mind than the future that never was…”
- The Shape of Darkness by Laura Purcell

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“I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
- Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery

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“A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.”
- Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

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"We are such stuff as dreams are made on..."
- The Tempest by William Shakespeare

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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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“...living is merely the chaos of existence...”
- The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima

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“We need never be ashamed of our tears.”
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

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“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

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