Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past. Book IV
Therefore each of us must discover for himself what is permitted and what is forbidden—forbidden to him. Demian
You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion. The Complete Sherlock Holmes
The role of the disappointed lover of a maiden or of any single woman might be ridiculous; but the role of a man who was pursuing a married woman, and who made it the purpose of his life at all cost to draw her into adultery, was one which had in it something beautiful and dignified and could never be ridiculous. Anna Karenina
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