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“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“To write is to transform that inward gaze into words, to study the worlds into which we pass when we retire into ourselves, and to do so with patience, obstinacy, and joy.”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Father's Suitcase: The Nobel Lecture

“J'avais d'une part une curiosité insatiable et universelle, et une soif d'apprendre excessive et naïve. D'autre part je sentais que ma vie était vouée à rester insatisfaite, privée de certaines choses qui sont données aux autres.”
― Orhan Pamuk, Mon père et autres textes

“I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.”
― George Orwell, 1984