“If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights
“Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“She knew she never wanted children or to serve his breakfast or run his errands or pretend she was not intellectually engaged with the world to make herself more loveable to him.”
― The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
― The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
“Becoming serious was not the same thing as approaching truth, I sensed, however vaguely.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
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