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“We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: sanity, self-image

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“The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.”
― Daniel Defoe

tags: diamond, soul

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“No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.”
― Aphra Behn, The Rover

tags: distance, love, travel, voyage

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“Do not suffer life to stagnate, it will grow muddy for want of motion; commit yourself again to the current of the world.”
― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

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“The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not found out.”
― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

tags: irony, reality

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