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“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.”
― George Gordon Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita