February 2012
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“There is a sweetness in being the sole source, the autocratic and irresponsible...”
– Ivan Turgenev, First Love
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“I have outlasted all desire,
My dreams and I have grown apart;
My grief alone...”
– Alexander Pushkin
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“Happy the writer who, passing by characters that are boring, disgusting,...”
– Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
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“What is stronger in us — passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all...”
– Nikolai Gogol
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“Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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“This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the...”
– William Shakespeare, Hamlet
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“How despicably I have acted!” she cried; “I, who have prided myself...”
– Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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“Dear Diary, Today I tried not to think about Mr. Knightly. I tried not to think...”
– Jane Austen, Emma
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“They were within twenty yards of each other, and so abrupt was his appearance,...”
– Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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“I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I...”
– Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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“The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
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“I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are...”
– Jane Austen, Persuasion
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“I’ve lived to bury my desires,
And see my dreams corrode with rust;
Now all...”
– Alexander Pushkin
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“There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis...”
– Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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“Humanity’s true moral test, its fundamental test, consists of its attitude...”
– Milan Kundera
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“Love is by definition an unmerited gift; being loved without meriting it is the...”
– Milan Kundera, Slowness
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“The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the...”
– Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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“I have named you queen.
There are taller than you, taller.
There are purer...”
– Pablo Neruda, Love Poems
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