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“Tiedän muutaman ihmisen, joitten kuolemaa aion juhlistaa kuohuviinillä. Aidon samppanjan arvoisia he eivät ole.”
― Anna-Leena Härkönen, Takana puhumisen taito

“I can resist anything except temptation.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

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

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Aïe, aïe, aïe, je me suis dit, est-ce que ça veut dire que c'est comme ça qu'il faut mener sa vie ? Toujours en équilibre entre la beauté et la mort, le mouvement et sa disparition ?
C'est peut-être ça, être vivant : traquer des instants qui meurent.”
― Muriel Barbery

“The real ordeal is not leaving those you love but learning to live without those who don't love you.”
― Muriel Barbery, Gourmet Rhapsody

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Do you know that it is in your company that I have had my finest thoughts?”
― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I have finally concluded, maybe that's what life is about: there's a lot of despair, but also the odd moment of beauty, where time is no longer the same. It's as if those strains of music created a sort of interlude in time, something suspended, an elsewhere that had come to us, an always within never. Yes, that's it, an always within never.”
― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog