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“...and with this reminder other things came to her -- how strange it was that, with all allowance for their merit, it should befall some people to be so inordinantly valued, quoted, as they said in the stock-market, so high, and how still stranger, perhaps, that there should be cases in which, for some reason, one didn't mind the so frequently marked absence in them of the purpose really to represent their price. ”
― Henry James, The Golden Bowl

“Not to give away the woman one loved, but to back her up in her mistakes -- once they had gone a certain length -- that was perhaps chief among the inevitabilities of the abjection of love. ”
― Henry James

“Curiosity being one of the forms of self-revelation, a systematically incurious person remains always partly mysterious. ”
― Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale

“...in his gambling, he had one besetting weakness -- faith in a system; and this made his damnation certain. ”
― Jack London, The Call of the Wild