„I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!“
Fonte: The Scarlet Letter
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— Christopher Walken American actor 1943
Jan Moir (March 11, 2002) "'You're not scared of me, are you?': Christopher Walken has cornered the market in movie menace. But, as Jan Moir discovers, he is just as unsettling in real life", The Daily Telegraph, p. 18.

„I shall laugh my bitter laugh.“
— Nikolai Gogol Russian writer 1809 - 1852
Epitaph on Gogol's tombstone

— Ken Livingstone Mayor of London between 2000 and 2008 1945
Referring to the wedding of the Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer, in Daily Mail (29 July 1981).

— Robinson Jeffers American poet 1887 - 1962
Response in a pamphlet Writers Take Sides : Letters About the War in Spain from 418 American Authors (1938) by the American Writers League, which asked various authors: "Are you for or are you against Franco and fascism?".

— Camille Pissarro French painter 1830 - 1903
Quote of Camille Pissarro, in a letter, Paris, 20 February 1889, to his son Lucien; in Camille Pissarro - Letters to His Son Lucien ed. John Rewald, with assistance of Lucien Pissarro; from the unpublished French letters; transl. Lionel Abel; Pantheon Books Inc. New York, second edition, 1943, p. 134-135
Rewald: 'This data was doubtless for an article in preparation. While the question of the 'passage', which was going to separate Camille Pissarro from pointillism and thus from Divisionism, was then the main preoccupation of the artist, Pissarro was still unable to express himself with precision on it.'
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— Arthur Rubinstein Polish-American classical pianist 1887 - 1982
From his autobiography My Young Years (1973), quoted in Carol Krucoff (August 13, 1982) "FOCUS: With a Little Bit of Good Luck", The Washington Post, p. D5.

„I am only fond of what comes from the heart.“
— Martha Washington First Lady of the United States 1731 - 1802
Letter to Mercy Warren (1789)
Contexto: I am not apt to forget the feelings that have been inspired by ray former society with good acquaintances, nor to be insensible to their expressions of gratitude to the President of the United States; for you know me well enough, to do me the justice to believe, that I am only fond of what comes from the heart.

„What, O Kunti, am I to give thee? Tell me what is in thy heart.“
— Kunti character from Indian epic Mahabharata
Vayu to Kunti when Kunti invoked him.
The Mahabharata/Book 1: Adi Parva/Section CXXIII

„You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope… I have loved none but you.“
— Jane Austen, livro Persuasão (livro)
Variante: You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.
Fonte: Persuasion

— TotalBiscuit British game commentator 1984 - 2018
Hearthstone series, Randuin 2 Electric Boogaloo (January 13, 2015)

„Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? - Through whose blood am I to wade?“
— Arthur Rimbaud French Decadent and Symbolist poet 1854 - 1891