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“It's like living in the Arabian Nights. Being the favourite in the harem. But the one perfume you really want is freedom.”
― John Fowles, The Collector

“The honest poor are the moneyless vulgar rich. Poverty forces them to have good qualities and pride in other things besides money. Then when they have money they don’t know what to do with it. They forget all the old virtues, which weren’t real virtues anyway. They think the only virtue is to make more money and to spend. They can’t imagine that there are people to whom money is nothing. That the most beautiful things are quite independent of money.”
― John Fowles, The Collector

“Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers

“Modesty is invisibility, said Aunt Lydia. Never forget it. To be seen – to be seen – is to be – her voice trembled – penetrated. What you must be, girls, is impenetrable.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale