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Wilkie Collins, born on January 8, 1824, and died on September 23, 1889, was a renowned British novelist. He is best known for his suspense and detective novels, being one of the pioneers of this literary genre. His works, such as 'The Woman in White' and 'The Moonstone', are particularly famous.

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Famous Wilkie Collins Quotes

“I should have looked into my own heart, and found this new growth springing up there, and plucked it out while it was young.”

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“Did you fall asleep?" "No. I couldn't sleep that night." "You were restless?" "I was thinking of you." The answer almost unmanned me. Something in the tone, even more than in the words, went straight to my heart. It was only after pausing a little first that I was able to go on.”

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Book:The Moonstone

Source: The Moonstone

“The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared. Sympathies that lie too deep for words, too deep almost for thoughts, are touched, at such times, by other charms than those which the senses feel and which the resources of expression can realise. The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression until it has claimed kindred with the deeper mystery in our own souls.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Wilkie Collins (Illustrated)

“The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.”

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Book:The Moonstone

Source: The Moonstone

“The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression until it has claimed kindred with the deeper mystery in our own souls.”

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Book:Greatest Mystery Novels of Wilkie Collins

Source: Greatest Mystery Novels of Wilkie Collins

About the Author

Born: January 8, 1824
Died: September 23, 1889
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 116

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