“You're a fine fastidious young man, as proud as a lion, as gentle as a girl. You'd make a good catch for the devil.”
― Père Goriot
― Père Goriot
“The last I saw of Count Dracula was his kissing his hand to me, with a red light of triumph in his eyes, and with a smile that Judas in hell might be proud of.”
― Dracula
― Dracula
“It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.”
― Life of Pi
― Life of Pi
“Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these masses of men like a cannon ball, or steal among them like a plague.”
― Père Goriot
― Père Goriot
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