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“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“Thanking him had nearly given her an ulcer, but she'd managed by imagining him dead.”
― Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens

“From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. ”
― Susan Sontag