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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.

Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.590, Wordsworth Editions

Every evening words, not stars, light the sky. No rest in life like life itself.

Umberto Saba (1998). “Songbook: Selected Poems from the Canzoniere”

What a fine persecution—to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.

Tom Stoppard (2007). “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead”, p.41, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

There is certainly no defence or water -proof garment against adverse fortune which is, on the whole, so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

"The New World and the New Book, an Address, Delivered Before the Nineteenth Century Club of New York City, Jan. 15, 1891".