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“marriage meant offering daily salvation to a man standing on the gallows”
― Keigo Higashino, Salvation of a Saint

“Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist-a master-and that is what Auguste Rodin was-can look at an old woman, protray her exactly as she is...and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be...and more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo, or even you, see that this lovely young girl is still alive, not old and ugly at all, but simply prisoned inside her ruined body. He can make you feel the quiet, endless tragedy that there was never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart...no matter what the merciless hours have done to her. Look at her, Ben. Growing old doesn't matter to you and me; we were never meant to be admired-but it does to them.”
― Robert Heinlein

“My mother raised me to be polite, to be demure. I have long operated under the idea that civility is subservience. But it hasn't gotten me very far, that type of kindness. The world respects people who think they should be running it.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Sự sống nảy sinh từ cái chết, hạnh phúc hiện hình từ trong những hy sinh, gian khổ, ở đời này không có con đường cùng, chỉ có những ranh giới, điều cốt yếu là phải có sức mạnh để bước qua những ranh giới ấy.
~ 'Mùa Lạc”
― Nguyễn Khải