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“Power brings a man many luxuries, but a pair of clean hands is seldom among them.”
― Robert Harris, Imperium : L'ascension au pouvoir

“True love makes it through any ordeal. I yearn to be in a relationship that can shake off the frosty wind and the couple still stands hand in hand. I yearn for a love that, because of devoted vigilance, can withstand time’s ceaseless erosion and come out alive.”
― Miaojin Qiu, [Last Words from Montmartre (New York Review Books Classics)] [By: Miaojin, Qiu] [June, 2014]

“Along the banks of the Seine the couples strolled as always on summer nights, hand in hand, slowly as if drinking wine in the dusk and love and youth that will never, however hard they try, be quite the same again.”
― Frederick Forsyth, The Day of the Jackal

“Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had not read; and the serenity for which he labored was shattered as he realized the little time he had in life to read so much, to learn what he had to know.”
― John Williams, Stoner: A Novel