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“You examine me, Miss Eyre", said he. "Do you think me handsome?"
I should have deliberated, have replied to this question by something conventionally vague and polite; but the answer somehow slipped from my tongue before I was aware: "No, sir.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“Poor, unhappy Erik! Shall we pity him? Shall we curse him? He asked only to be "some one," like everybody else. But he was too ugly! And he had to hide his genius OR USE IT TO PLAY TRICKS WITH, when, with an ordinary face, he would have been one of the most distinguished of mankind!”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera