“Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.”

“I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.”

— Jane Austen《Pride and Prejudice》

“The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought, and sold, and bartered away.”

— Oscar Wilde《The Picture of Dorian Gray》

“In any case such a monster must of necessity be in our scheme of things an anomaly and an intruder, whose extirpation forms a primary duty with every man not an enemy to the world's life, health, and sanity.”

— H. P. Lovecraft《The Shunned House》

“I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.”

— Oscar Wilde《The Picture of Dorian Gray》

“There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.”

— Jane Austen《Pride and Prejudice》

“The living soul demands life, the soul won’t obey the rules of mechanics, the soul is an object of suspicion, the soul is retrograde!”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky《Crime and Punishment》

“The answer is, that we must do good to our seeming and real good friends, and evil to our seeming and real evil enemies--good to the good, evil to the evil.”

— Plato《The Republic of Plato》

“A woman with so passionate a nature as hers, married against her will to a man she could never love, and meeting once more the man whom she loved, the man who really loved her, must find such friendship a dangerous pitfall.”

— Grant Allen《Linnet》

“Get busy living, or get busy dying.”

— Andy Dufresne《The Shawshank Redemption》

“All right, then, I'll go to hell.”

— Mark Twain《Adventures of Huckleberry Finn》

“The moment when a woman realises that she has nothing to live for—neither love, duty, purpose nor hope—holds for her the bitterness of death.”

— Lucy Maud Montgomery《The Blue Castle》

“But nature itself, she thought, would be no better than a vast blank, if the mind of the observer did not supply it with an animating soul.”

— William Godwin《Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman》