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Charles Dickens2 quotes
I wear the chain I forged in life. — Charles Dickens · 1843I will honor Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year. — Charles Dickens · 1843Norman Maclean2 quotes
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. — Norman Maclean · 1976I am haunted by waters. — Norman Maclean · 1976Carson McCullers1 quote
Love is a joint experience between two persons-but the fact it is a joint experience does not mean it is a similar experience to the two people involved. There are the lover and beloved, but these two come from different countries. — Carson McCullers · 1943Joseph Conrad1 quote
No fear can stand up to hunger, no patience can wear it out, disgust simply does not exist where hunger is; and as to superstition, beliefs, and what you may call principles, they are less than chaff in a breeze. — Joseph Conrad · 1899Robert Louis Stevenson1 quote
All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1886