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fancy quotes

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“If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fancy or two.” Marcel Proust, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
“I treat my poor heart like a sick child, and gratify its every fancy.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther
“However, some desire is necessary to keep life in motion; and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.” Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
“I should be no artist if I had not some fancies.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

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In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (1)