Forester quote

...life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish...

- E. M. Forster from 'Howards End'

This is very common,...just recall the assurances and emotions that poured during happy times; like a holiday season.

Excerpts from novel "Fathers and Sons"

Excerpts from novel "Fathers and Sons" by Ivan Turgenev

Q1)
"In the first place, I'm far from good; and in the second place I no longer mean anything to you, and you tell me that I am good . . .It's just like placing a wreath of flowers round the head of a corpse."