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“Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.”
― Munshi Premchand

“But how could you live and have no story to tell?”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”
― Émile Zola, The Ladies' Paradise

“I gave myself up to fruitless speculation, and was always looking for secluded places. I became particularly fond of the ruined greenhouse. I used to climb, I remember, on to the high wall, settle myself on it and sit there, a youth afflicted by such misery, solitude and grief that I would be overcome with self-pity. How I reveled in these melancholy feelings - how I adored them.”
― Ivan Turgenev, First Love

“I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.”
― Emile Zola

“We are like books. Most people only see our cover, the minority read only the introduction, many people believe the critics. Few will know our content.”
― Émile Zola