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“He knew himself a villain—but he deem'd
The rest no better than the thing he seem'd;
And scorn'd the best as hypocrites who hid
Those deeds the bolder spirit plainly did.
He knew himself detested, but he knew
The hearts that loath'd him, crouch'd and dreaded too.
Lone, wild, and strange, he stood alike exempt
From all affection and from all contempt”
― George Gordon Byron, The Corsair

“Ah! love is a mystery; it can only live hidden in the depths of the heart. You say, even to your friend, ‘Behold her whom I love,’ and there is an end of love.”
― Honoré de Balzac, The Unknown Masterpiece

“The world is so waste and empty, when we figure only towns and hills and rivers in it; but to know of some one here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence,—this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

“A perfect judge will read each work of wit
With the same spirit that its author writ”
― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism