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“But there is nothing a man might not do, with you to encourage him. You make me wish to be a hero." He laughed, but Hester did not laugh. She gave him a keen look, in which there was a touch of disdain. " Do you really think," she said, " that the charm of inspiring, as you call it, is what any reasonable creature would prefer to doing? To make somebody else a hero rather than be a hero yourself? Women would need to be disinterested indeed if they like that best. I don't see it. Besides, we are not in the days of chivalry. What could you be inspired to do— make better bargains on your Stock Exchange?”
― Mrs. Oliphant, Hester

“Shakespeare wrote Moby-Dick, using Melville as a Ouija board.”
― Ray Bradbury

“That no life lives forever;
That dead men rise up never;
That even the weariest river
Winds somewhere safe to sea.”
― Algernon Charles Swinburne, The Garden of Proserpine

“I only care for the subjective life; I am very German, you see: The woods interest me, and the world does not.”
― Ouida, Wanda, Countess von Szalras.