“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”

― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

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“my drops of tears I'll turn to sparks of fire.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry VIII

“Beauty to her, as to all who have felt, lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

“And it was for him, for this creature, for this man, who understood nothing, who felt nothing!”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“My whole life is about forgetting. It’s my most valuable job skill.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“Anyone who is honestly trying to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened: one of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“Then she fell back exhausted, for these transports of vague love wearied her more than great debauchery.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“Hatred is like a long, dark shadow. . . . It is like a two-edged sword. When you cut the other person, you cut yourself.”

― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“While there's life there's hope!”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women.”

― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

“Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.”

― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

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