“The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.”

― G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

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“You—you strange, you almost unearthly thing! —I love as my own flesh. You—poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are—I entreat to accept me as a husband.”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“New York's terrible when somebody laughs on the street very late at night. You can hear it for miles. It makes you feel so lonesome and depressed.”

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

“The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.”

― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

“He is energetic only in evading responsibility.”

― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“Like so many cold, weak people, when faced at last by the incontrovertible disaster she exhumed from somewhere a sort of fortitude, strength.”

― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

“Her affection for him was now the breath and life of Tess's being; it enveloped her as a photosphere, irradiated her into forgetfulness of her past sorrows, keeping back the gloomy spectres that would persist in their attempts to touch...”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

“Everything was for tomorrow, but tomorrow never came. The present was only a bridge and on this bridge they are still groaning, as the world groans, and not one idiot ever thinks of blowing up the bridge.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn

“Nobody knows why you go to a picnic to be uncomfortable when it is so easy and pleasant to eat at home.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Ah, no, he did not want May to have that kind of innocence, the innocence that seals the mind against imagination and the heart against experience!”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“A woman's standard of truthfulness was tacitly held to be lower: she was the subject creature, and versed in the arts of the enslaved.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

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