"Ein Mensch kann sich manchmal in merkwürdigen Situationen wiederfinden."

(Thor Heyerdahl, "Kon-Tiki", 1948)

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"I suppose my mother could have been a witch if she had chosen to."

(Mary Stewart, "Thornyhold", 1988)

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"The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people seem to think, repose upon a manly bosom."

(Dorothy L. Sayers, Have his Carcase, 1932)

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"Who is there who has not felt a sudden startled pang at reliving an old experience or feeling an old emotion?"

(Agatha Christie, "Curtain", 1975)

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"An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details."

(Roald Dahl, "Boy", 1984)

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"Das war gestern abend so um zwölf, da fühlte ich, daß etwas Großartiges in mir vorging."

(Irmgard Keun, Das kunstseidene Mädchen, 1932)

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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we werde all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good and for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only."

(Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, 1859)

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