"People only get married when they've no other option, out of panic or desperation or so as not to lose someone they couldn't bear to lose. It's always the most conventional things that contain the largest measure of madness."

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Source : "A Heart So White" by Javier Marías, translated by Margaret Jull Costa, New Directions, (p. 121), 2002.

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“Truly, if you were to tear me limb from limb and separate my soul from my body, I would not say anything more. If I did say anything, afterwards I would always declare that you made me say it by force!”
“The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear.”
“Secondly I would like to make continuous efforts of stabilising cross Strait relations, eventually reaching peace across the Taiwan strait and stability and security in the Asia Pacific region.”
“And every year there is a brief, startling moment When we pause in the middle of a long walk home and Suddenly feel something invisible and weightless Touching our shoulders, sweeping down from the air: It is the autumn wind pressing against our bodies; It is the changing light of fall falling on us.”

Source : Edward Hirsch, “Fall”
“The world is magic. Science is but an insipid style of sorcery.”
“I might take what I do very seriously, but at least I'm doing something, rather than sitting on my arse and being no-one.”
“Men and women thought and did noble and mean things that would have been impossible to them before or after. A man cannot drink old Bourbon long and remain in his normal condition. We did not drink Bourbon, but blood.”
“Oh! what a luxury it is to weep, / And find in tears a sad relief!”

Source : Augusta Jane Evans (1864). “Inez: A Tale of the Alamo”, p.296

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