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“A sort of transaction went on between them, in which she was on one side, and life was on another, and she was always trying to get the better of it, as it was of her.”
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov