- “Il ne faut pas toucher aux idoles: la dorure en reste aux mains" - Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
- "There was something better in life than this rubbish, if only he could get to it—love—nobility— big spaces where passion clasped peace, spaces no science could reach, but they existed for ever, full of woods some of them, and arched with majestic sky and a friend..." - Maurice, E. M. Forster
- "I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life." - The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- "There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired." - The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- "You see I think everything's terrible anyhow," she went on in a convinced way. "Everybody thinks so—the most advanced people. And I know. I've been everywhere and seen everything and done everything." - The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- "I’m not sure what I’ll do, but—well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale." - The Ice Palace, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- "The trouble with emergencies is," she said, "that I always put on my finest underwear and then nothing happens." - _Save Me the Waltz, Zelda Fitzgerald.
- "She wanted both to die and to live in Paris." - Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
- "My active spirits have degenerated into contented indolence. I cannot be idle, and yet I am unable to set to work. I cannot think: I have no longer any feeling for the beauties of nature, and books are distasteful to me. Once we give ourselves up, we are totally lost." - The Sorrows of Young Werther, J. W. von Goethe
- "I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember." - Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
- "The langour of Youth – how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrevocably, lost!" - Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
- “Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.” - Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, Oscar Wilde
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