“I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.”
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“It was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region.”
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“The real marriage of true minds is for any two people to possess a sense of humor or irony pitched in exactly the same key, so that their joint glances on any subject cross like interarching searchlights.”
― A Backward Glance
― A Backward Glance
“A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.”
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“The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!”
― The Age of Innocence
― The Age of Innocence
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