“It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“By God, I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me. They meet all kinds of crazy fish.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“What is fright by night is curiosity by day.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.”
― Julius Caesar
― Julius Caesar
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