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“We are asleep until we fall in Love!”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
“I don’t think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in a while—just once in a while—there was at least some polite little perfunctory implication that knowledge should lead to wisdom, and that if it doesn't, it's just a disgusting waste of time! But there never is! You never even hear any hints dropped on a campus that wisdom is supposed to be the goal of knowledge. You hardly ever even hear the word 'wisdom' mentioned!”
― Franny and Zooey
― Franny and Zooey
“There seemed to be something tragic in a friendship so coloured by romance.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“- My mystery is simple: I don't know how to be alive. - Because you only know, or only knew, how to be alive through pain.”
― An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
― An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
“…because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.”
― Little Women
― Little Women
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