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“Please write me, Clyde, a long, cheery letter, even though you don't want to, and tell me all about how you have not thought of me once since I've been away or missed me at all— you used to, you know, and how you don't want me to come back and you can't possibly come up before two weeks from Saturday if then.”
― Theodore Dreiser, An American Tragedy

“Xiao Chiye raised his head and said in a hoarse voice, “Oh, how I love you so.”

Shen Zechuan was slightly stunned.

Xiao Chiye looked at him and enunciated each word as he repeated, “I love you so much.”
― Tang Jiuqing, 将进酒 [Qiāng Jìn Jiǔ]

“Sometimes I feel I don't want to know anything more about history than I know already.”
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

“But one day as I came back to camp from patrol, I saw these dead trees had met spring, a flower bud was raising from the ash, blooming overnight. It is both pitiable and endearing. The army is filled with those that does not know how to appreciate beauty... wishing I could cut several branches of plum blossoms in the Marquis's manor myself in the early spring of next year”
― Priest, 杀破狼 [Sha Po Lang]