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Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues—faith and hope.

Charles Dickens

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

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Dickens, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. London: Chapman and Hall, Apr. 1839, issue 14, ch. 43.

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Dickens, Charles. Nicholas Nickleby, edited by Mark Ford. Penguin, 1999, ch. 43.

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In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to make him fall in love with her.

Marcel Proust

In Search of Lost Time

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Proust, Marcel. Du côté de chez Swann [The Way by Swann's]. Paris: Grasset, 1913.

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Proust, Marcel. Swann's Way, edited and translated by Lydia Davis. Penguin Classics, 2004.

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Politics in the middle of things that concern the imagination are like a pistol-shot in the middle of a concert.

Stendhal

The Red and the Black

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Stendhal. Le Rouge et le Noir: Chronique du XIXe siècle [The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of the 19th Century]. Vol. 2, Paris: A. Levasseur, c. 1830, ch. 22.

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Stendhal. The Red and the Black, translated by Catherine Slater. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 2, ch. 22.

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I cannot tell my story without reaching a long way back.

Hermann Hesse

Demian

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Hesse, Herman. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend [Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth]. Fischer Verlag, 1919.

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Hesse, Herman. Demian, translated by Damion Searls. Penguin Classics, 2013.

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Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH...

Jack Kerouac

Big Sur

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Kerouac, Jack. Big Sur. Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1962, ch. 9.

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One reproaches a lover, but can one reproach a husband, when his only fault is that he no longer loves?

Madame de La Fayette [Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, Comtesse de La Fayette]

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La Fayette, Madame de [published anonymously]. La Princesse de Cleves [The Princess of Cleves]. 1678, pt. 4.

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La Fayette, Madame de. The Princesse de Cleves, translated by Terence Cave. Oxford University Press, 1992, pt. 4.

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We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.

Chuck Palahniuk

Invisible Monsters

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Palahniuk, Chuck. Invisible Monsters. W. W. Norton & Company, 1999.

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Statements, indictments, bills are circulated, shuffled between judges, prosecutors, the Attorney General, the Lord Chancellor’s office; each step in the process clear, logical, and designed to create corpses by due process of law.

Hilary Mantel

Bring Up the Bodies

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Mantel, Hilary. Bring Up the Bodies. Fourth Estate/Henry Holt and Co., 2012.

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Work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.

George MacDonald

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Wilfrid Cumbermede

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MacDonald, George. Wilfred Cumbermede. New York: Charles Scribner & Co., 1872.

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The whole effect of Christianity was to transfer the drama onto the moral plane.

Andre Gide

The Counterfeiters

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Gide, Andre. Les Faux-monnayeurs [The Counterfeiters]. Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1925, pt. 1, ch. 13.

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Gide, Andre. The Counterfeiters, translated by Dorothy Bussy. Penguin Books, 1990, pt. 1, ch. 13.

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When artists create pictures and thinkers search for laws and formulate thoughts, it is in order to salvage something from the great dance of death, to make something that lasts longer than we do.

Hermann Hesse

Narcissus and Goldmund

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Hesse, Herman. Narziß und Goldmund [Narcissus and Goldmund]. Fischer Verlag, 1930.

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Hesse, Herman. Narcissus and Goldmund, translated by Ursule Molinaro. Bantam, 1984.

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He could see the island of Manhattan off to the left. The towers were jammed together so tightly, he could feel the mass and stupendous weight. Just think of the millions, from all over the globe, who yearned to be on that island, in those towers, in those narrow streets! There it was, the Rome, the Paris, the London of the twentieth century, the city of ambition, the dense magnetic rock, the irresistible destination of all those who insist on being where things are happening-and he was among the victors!

Tom Wolfe

The Bonfire of the Vanities

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Wolfe, Tom. The Bonfire of the Vanities. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1987.

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Mrs. Pontellier was beginning to realize her position in the universe as a human being, and to recognize her relations as an individual to the world within and about her.

Kate Chopin

The Awakening

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Chopin, Kate. The Awakening. Chicago and New York: Herbert S. Stone & Co., 1899, ch. 6.

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Chopin, Kate. "The Awakening." The Awakening and Selected Stories. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 6.

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For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.

Douglas Adams

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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Adams, Douglas. "Fit the Third." The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Primary Phase. BBC Radio 4, London, England, UK, 22 Mar. 1978.

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Adams, Douglas. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Pan Books, 1979, ch. 23.

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Trembled to think of that mysterious thing in the soul, which seems to acknowledge no human jurisdiction, but in spite of the individual's own innocent self, will still dream horrid dreams, and mutter unmentionable thoughts.

Herman Melville

Pierre; or, The Ambiguities

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Melville, Herman. Pierre; or, The Ambiguities. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1852, bk. 4, ch. 2.

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Melville, Herman. Pierre: Or, The Ambiguities, edited by Robert S. Levine and Cindy Weinstein. W. W. Norton & Company, 2017, bk. 4, ch. 2.

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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.

Colette

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Colette. Le Pur et l'impur and Ces Plaisirs [The Pure and the Impure and These Pleasures]. J. Ferenczi & fils, 1932, ch. 9.

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Colette. The Pure and the Impure. NYRB Classics, 2000, ch. 9.

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The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

Milan Kundera

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

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Kundera, Milan. Le Livre du rire et de l'oubli [The Book of Laughter and Forgetting]. Gallimard, 1979.

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Kundera, Milan. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, translated by Aaron Asher. Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1999.

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The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still. Like when they say "As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end."