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“There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“That prisoner of society’s world,
That sacrifice to vanity,
The blind slave of custom,
That small-souled being isn't you.”
― Karolina Pavlova, A Double Life

“To you the offering of this thought,
The greeting of my poetry,
To you this work of solitude,
O slaves of din and vanity.
In silence did my sad sigh name
You Cecily's unmet by me,
All of you Psyches without wings,
Mute sisters of my soul!
God grant you, unknown family,
One sacred dream mid sinful lies,
In the prison of this narrow life
Just one brief burst of that other life.”
― Karolina Pavlova, A Double Life

“my observations are for my own improvement (137–8); and my writings are just an amusing pastime (138–9).”
― Horace, The Satires of Horace and Persius