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‘Oh, yes; I am anxious,’ returned the Scarecrow. ‘It is such an uncomfortable feeling to know one is a fool.’
— The Wonderful Wizard of Oz L. Frank Baum
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‘Oh, I see,’ said the Tin Woodman. ‘But, after all, brains are not the best things in the world.’
‘Have you any?’ inquired the Scarecrow.
‘No, my head is quite empty,’ answered the Woodman. ‘But once I had brains, and a heart also; so, having tried them both, I should much rather have a heart.’— The Wonderful Wizard of Oz L. Frank Baum
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‘This will serve me a lesson,’ said he, ‘to look where I step. For if I should kill another bug or beetle I should surely cry again, and crying rusts my jaws so that I cannot speak.’ Thereafter he walked very carefully, with his eyes on the road, and when he saw a tiny ant toiling by he would step over it, so as not to harm it. The Tin Woodman knew very well he had no heart, and therefore he took great care never to be cruel or unkind to anything.
‘You people with hearts,’ he said, ‘have something to guide you, and need never do wrong; but I have no heart, and so I must be very careful. When Oz gives me a heart of course I needn’t mind so much.’
— The Wonderful Wizard of Oz L. Frank Baum
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Alas! I thought I had only a friendship for you, but, the grief I now feel convinces me, that I cannot live without you.
— Beauty and the Beast
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Upton Sinclair: The Jungle
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“Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.—I shall feel it.”
She dropped her head again on Marius’ knees, and her eyelids closed. He thought the poor soul had departed. Eponine remained motionless. All at once, at the very moment when Marius fancied her asleep forever, she slowly opened her eyes in which appeared the sombre profundity of death, and said to him in a tone whose sweetness seemed already to proceed from another world:—
“And by the way, Monsieur Marius, I believe that I was a little bit in love with you.”
— Victor Hugo, Les Miserables. (via literaryquotes)
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