PontNeuf:Victor Hugo / "Les Misérables"
"Avoiding sometimes resembles searching." Freely translated from me as I could not find any official transcript into English. Have read the novel in German, the original was written in French.
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W.M. Thackeray / "Vanity Fair"
"A love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated." This is the original wording.
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I must not forget dear Oscar Wilde who blessed mankind with so many brilliant bonmots :
"Be yourself. Everyone else is taken." I like that quote. The last one.