But you like her, don't you?' asked Howarth. ‘You like Mrs Connor?' For himself, thought Howarth, he did not particularly like Mrs Connor. He desired Mrs Connor, however. (Anthony Burgess)

But you like her, don't you?' asked Howarth. ‘You like Mrs Connor?' For himself, thought Howarth, he did not particularly like Mrs Connor. He desired Mrs Connor, however.

Anthony Burgess

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

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Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

Charles Caleb Colton

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Friendship, I have said, is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself..."

C. S. Lewis

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Georges Bernanos