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“Let us have the luxury of silence.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“Long ago, in my wide bed, I had asked Odysseus: “What did you do? When you could not make Achilles and Agamemnon listen?” He’d smiled in the firelight. “That is easy. You make a plan in which they do not.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“She had learned that words are not always promises, that music cannot save you, that your own abilities do not always lead to their predestined objective, that love is sometimes just camouflage for something much worse; she had learned to tame her dreams, had learned to paint over her disappointments with a dash of lipstick;”
― Nino Haratischwili, The Eighth Life

“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.”
― Oscar Wilde