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”I was almost wicked enough to wish that Baxter had shot the housemaid instead of the dog.”

The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins

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“As inhuman fire sweeps on in fury through the deep angles of a drywood mountain and sets ablaze the depth of the timber and the blustering wind lashes the flame along, so Achilleus swept everywhere with his spear like something more than a mortal harrying them as they died, and the black earth ran blood.”

The Iliad, Homer

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“But I am less surprised and angry with Hera, for whatever I say she always contradicts me.”

The Iliad, Homer (Book 8)

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”Men become old, but they never become good.”

Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan

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“Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory, the second philosophy.”

- Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

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”Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books one does not discover how bad the majority of them are.”

- George Orwell, “Books v. cigarettes”

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”You might as well ask the grass why it grows, or the birds why they sing.”

The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins

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“No, to tell you the truth I am looking for a city.”

A handful of dust, Evelyn Waugh

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He was prematurely, unnaturally stout, and carried his burden of flesh as though he were not yet used to it; as though it had been buckled onto him that morning for the first time and he were still experimenting for its better adjustment.

A handful of dust, Evelyn Waugh

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Trots dessa tendenser till tafs var han högst ansedd.

- Don Quichotte s.87

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Då, när det är värst och inget hjälper,

Brister som i jubel trädets knoppar.

- Karin Boye, ”Ja, visst gör det ont”

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”Där kommer Petter med sin pissmaskin, sade doktorn”

- Götiska rummet, s. 29, Strindberg

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“All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.”

Leo Tolstoy (via acciodumbledore)

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“How

do

you

run

from

what

is

inside

your

head?” -

Cheshire Cat, Alice and Wonderland

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Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

Oscar Wilde

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Här har ni bitarna. Varför slog ni sönder min kruka?

Röda Rummet, August Strindberg

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All great and precious things are lonley

- John Steinbeck, East of Eden