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"But strange and marvelous as she was, a wisp of silk in a forest of black wool, she was not the fragile creature one would have her seem."
— Donna Tartt, The Secret History
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Hope, in reality, is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Love doesn't conquer everything. And whoever thinks it does is a fool.
— Donna Tartt, The Secret History
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"I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter , and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir their dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain."
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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"Yes, if my hand is trembling, then it's because such a pretty small hand like yours has never clasped it before."
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights
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