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“...here was he, as young as ever; envying young people their summer time and the rest of it, and more than suspecting from the words of a girl, from a housemaid's laughter - intangible things you couldn't lay your hands on”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“Nothing has changed and yet everything exists in a different way. I can't describe it; it's like the Nausea and yet it's just the opposite: at last an adventure is happening to me and when I question myself I see that it happens that I am myself and that I am here: it is I who am piercing the darkness, I am as happy as the hero of a novel.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“The I examined my own heart. And there you were. Never, I fear, to be removed.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray