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“It’s so hard for women—even nice women—to realize that their bodies are not irresistible.”
― The Big Sleep
― The Big Sleep
“Very well, then there's an experiment, and the thing is proved; one cannot live and count each moment; say what you like, but one cannot.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“But love truly becomes love only when, no longer an embryo developing painfully in the darkness of the body, it ventures to confess itself with lips and breath. However hard it tries to remain a chrysalis, a time comes when the intricate tissue of the cocoon tears, and out it falls, dropping from the heights to the farthest depths, falling with redoubled force into the startled heart.”
― Journey into the Past
― Journey into the Past
“Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.”
― Bartleby the Scrivener
― Bartleby the Scrivener
“Compassion was the most important, perhaps the sole law of human existence.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
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