“The things we love destroy us every time”

― George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

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“He saw her now only as a spy. Their love and his grief were relegated to the boxroom of his mind. Later, perhaps they would be dragged out, dispassionately examined, and then bitterly thrust back with other sentimental baggage he would rather forget.”

― Ian Fleming, Casino Royale

“his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.”

― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

“the upper world was all too strong, it called to him still, even down there, and he knew he must return to the larger stage. But it was good to think he had this to come back to; this place which was all his own, these things which were so glad...”

― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

“She confused in her desire the sensualities of luxury with the delights of the heart, elegance of manners with delicacy of sentiment.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“The more conscious I was of goodness and of all that was 'sublime and beautiful,' the more deeply I sank into my mire and the more ready I was to sink in it altogether.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

“Friends are born, not made”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

“The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“People were stupid, sometimes. They thought the Library was a dangerous place because of all the magical books, which was true enough, but what made it really one of the most dangerous places there could ever be was the simple fact that it was a...”

― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

“It always takes a man that never made much at any thing to tell you how to run your business, though. Like these college professors without a whole pair of socks to his name, telling you how to make a million in ten years, and a woman that...”

― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

“Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”

― James Joyce, Ulysses

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