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“My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.”
― Hamlet
― Hamlet
“Perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols; vagabond-language scrawled on gate-posts and paving-stones along the weary road that others have tramped before us; perhaps you and I are types and this sadness which sometimes falls between us springs from disappointment in our search, each straining through and beyond the other, snatching a glimpse now and then of the shadow which turns the corner always a pace or two ahead of us.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
“These memories, which are my life--for we possess nothing certainly except the past--were always with me.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
“Listen to many, speak to a few.”
― Hamlet
― Hamlet
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
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