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1 " When there was a choice between love of a woman and hate of a man, her mind could cherish only one emotion, for her love might be a subject for laughter, but no one ever had ever mocked her hatred. "
― Graham Greene , Orient Express
2 " Intimacy with one person could do this-empty the world of friendships, give a distaste for women's kisses and their bright chatter, make the ordinary world a little unreal and very uninteresting. "
3 " You put the small thief in prison, but the big thief lives in a palace. "
4 " She thought for the first time, with happiness: perhaps I have a life in people's minds when I am not there to be seen or talked to. "
5 " She was proud of her power of prophecy, though she had not yet lived to see any of her prophecies fulfilled. "
6 " His lips felt dry with a literal thirst for righteousness, which was like a glass of ice-cold water on a table in another man's room. "
7 " You are lovely, brilliant, witty...the incredible words which would relieve her of any need to repay him or refuse his gifts; loveliness and wit were priced higher than any gift he offered, while if a girl were loved, even old women of hard experience would admit her right to take and never give. "
8 " ... in a flash of insight he became aware of the innumerable necessary evils of which life for her was made up. "
9 " A whistle blew, and the train trembled into movement. The station lamps sailed by them into darkness, "