“She had always been fond of history, and here was history in the stones of the street and the atoms of the sunshine.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

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“Even if a dream of different content had the significance of this offence against majesty, it would still have been in place to remember the words of Plato, that the virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in...”

― Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams

“Wherever the enemy goes let our troops go also.”

― Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

“I just hope that one day—preferably when we're both blind drunk—we can talk about it.”

― J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

“Stick two different people with two different sets of expectations under one roof and it ain’t always going to be shrimp and grits on Easter.”

― Nicholas Sparks, The Lucky One

“You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them—and, that way she missed love.”

― Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

“There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.”

― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

“So I don't know about bores. Maybe you shouldn't feel too sorry if you see some swell girl getting married to them. They don't hurt anybody, most of them, and maybe they're secretly all terrific whistlers or something.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“each of us knows only his own unhappiness.”

― André Malraux, Man's Fate

“the woman does not work because the man tells her to work and she obeys. On the contrary, the woman works because she has told the man to work and he hasn't obeyed.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

“There are people in this world who cut such a grotesque figure that even death renders them ridiculous. And the more horrible the death the more ridiculous they seem.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

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