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"I quote others only in order the better to express myself."
- Michel De Montaigne

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Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.

- "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", J.K. Rowling

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It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

- "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone", J.K. Rowling

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London was beginning to illuminate herself against the night. Electric lights sizzled and jagged in the main thoroughfares, gas-lamps in the side streets glimmered a canary gold or green.

- "Howards End", E.M. Forster

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A mist is rolling over the fields. Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?
There was mist on Midsummer Eve, mist when we drove into the dawn.
He said he would come back.
Only the margin left to write on now. I love you, I love you, I love you.

- "I Capture The Castle", Dodie Smith

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It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.

- "Love In The Time of Cholera", Gabriel Garcia Marquez