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  • #1
    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

  • #2
    Marilyn Monroe
    “If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #3
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #4
    Donna Tartt
    “Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
    Donna Tartt, The Secret History

  • #5
    Donna Tartt
    “In short: I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way.”
    Donna Tartt, The Secret History

  • #6
    Lana Del Rey
    “No one compares to you, but there's no you, except in my dreams tonight.”
    Lana Del Rey

  • #7
    Leo Tolstoy
    “It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
    Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata

  • #8
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

  • #9
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “But how could you live and have no story to tell?”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

  • #10
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky

  • #11
    Louisa May Alcott
    “I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.”
    Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

  • #12
    Louisa May Alcott
    “Let us be elegant or die!”
    Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

  • #13
    Emily Brontë
    “It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.”
    Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

  • #14
    George Orwell
    “Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #15
    George Orwell
    “War is peace.
    Freedom is slavery.
    Ignorance is strength.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #16
    George Orwell
    “But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
    George Orwell, Politics and the English Language



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