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Blaise Pascal
“Thought constitutes the greatness of man. Man is a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.”
Blaise Pascal

Alain de Botton
“As Proust once said, classically beautiful women should be left to men without imagination.”
Alain de Botton, Essays In Love

Roland Barthes
“A mandarin fell in love with a courtesan. 'I shall be yours,' she told him, 'when you have spent a hundred nights waiting for me, sitting on a stool, in my garden, beneath my window.' But on the ninety-ninth night, the mandarin stood up, put his stool under his arm, and went away.”
Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

Thomas Hardy
“He had been held to her by a beautiful thread which it pained him to spoil by breaking, rather than by a chain he could not break.”
Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

Amor Towles
“After all, what can a first impression tell us about someone we’ve just met for a minute in the lobby of a hotel? For that matter, what can a first impression tell us about anyone? Why, no more than a chord can tell us about Beethoven, or a brushstroke about Botticelli. By their very nature, human beings are so capricious, so complex, so delightfully contradictory, that they deserve not only our consideration, but our reconsideration—and our unwavering determination to withhold our opinion until we have engaged with them in every possible setting at every possible hour.”
Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

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