Rosa

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Rosa’s Quotes

“My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other?”
― Jane Austen, Emma

tags: beauty, inter-relationship, sincerity, truth

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“I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

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“And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

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“My imagination longs to dash ahead and plan developments; but I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

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“It's difficult to explain, but I just somehow feel that I never really *have* lived; that I never really will live--exist or whatever--in the sense that other people do. It drives me crazy. I was terribly aware of it all those nights waiting for you in the Ritz bar looking around at what seemed to be real grown-up lives. I just find everybody else's life surrounded by plate glass. I mean I'd like to break through it just once and actually touch one.”
― Elaine Dundy, The Dud Avocado

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