“It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
― 1984
― 1984
“But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
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