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“It was awful, he cried, awful, awful!

Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him, or into the air all round him. She had become a physical necessity.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“She had learned that words are not always promises, that music cannot save you, that your own abilities do not always lead to their predestined objective, that love is sometimes just camouflage for something much worse; she had learned to tame her dreams, had learned to paint over her disappointments with a dash of lipstick;”
― Nino Haratischwili, The Eighth Life

“He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince