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“I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.”
― Colette, The Pure and the Impure

“People under seventy and over seven are very unreliable if they are not cats.”
― Leonora Carrington, The Hearing Trumpet

“Youth so apt for pleasure that pleasure, one thought, must exist”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“There was a house we all had in common and it was called the past, even though we'd lived in different rooms.”
― Angela Carter, Wise Children

“Words are traitors, for language tends to impose more logic than there is logic in life, and that the most precious in us is that which remains unexpressed.”
― André Gide 1869-1951