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... a whole day’s tête-à-tête between two women can never end without a quarrel.

Thế giới này có nhiều phụ nữ chỉ đáng khen ở chỗ đan ví tiền hay giăng màn cửa. Nhưng tôi không đồng ý lắm về cách đánh giá phụ nữ của anh. Trong tất cả những người tôi quen, tôi không thể nói khoác rằng biết hơn nửa tá phụ nữ toàn tài.Cô Bingley nói thêm:- Tôi cũng không, tôi chắc như thế.- Thế thì , anh hẳn phải lĩnh hội rất thấu đáo trong ý nghĩa của anh về một người phụ nữ toàn tài. – Elizabeth nhận xét.- Vâng đích thực là tôi biết rất rõ về vấn đề này.Anh trợ lý trung thành của Darcy thốt lên:- À! Đúng vậy rồi. Không ai có thể được coi là toàn vẹn nếu họ không vượt qua những gì họ thường phải đối diện.

Naw, Jem, I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.’ Jem

. . . But if he is truly Odysseus, home at last, make no mistake: we two will know each other, even better — we two have secret signs, known to us both but hidden from the world.

É bom ter pequenas metas que podem ser facilmente alcançadas.

In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don’t underrate it.

At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes...

My dear Lizzy, where can you have been walking to?" was a question which Elizabeth received from Jane as soon as she entered their room, and from all the others when they sat down to table. She had only to say in reply, that they had wandered about, till she was beyond her own knowledge. She coloured as she spoke; but neither that, nor anything else, awakened a suspicion of the truth. The evening

proper attention and management, less irritable, less

I wondered if anybody had ever called her ma’am or Miss Mayella in her life; probably not, as she took offense to routine courtesy. What on earth was her life like?

He was generally disappointed by the new novels of the early postwar years: There was a terrible sameness about books being published and I almost stopped reading as well as writing.

altogether, like a candle. I wonder what I should be like then?' And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out,

Den Mann nenne mir, Muse, den vielgewandten, der gar viel umgetriebenwurde, nachdem er Trojas heilige Stadt zerstörte. Von vielen Menschen sah erdie Städte und lernte kennen ihre Sinnesart; viel auch erlitt er Schmerzen aufdem Meer in seinem Gemüte, während er sein Leben zu gewinnen suchte wieauch die Heimkehr der Gefährten. Jedoch er rettete auch so nicht die Gefährten,so sehr er es begehrte. Selber nämlich durch ihre eignen Freveltaten verdarbensie, die Toren, die die Rinder des Sohns der Höhe, Helios, verzehrten. Der abernahm ihnen den Tag der Heimkehr. Davon – du magst beginnen, wo es sein mag– Göttin, Tochter des Zeus! sage auch uns!

He was no longer a thing to me. That was the problem. I realized it that night, and the realization has stayed with me. It complicates. Serena

It's impossible to say a thing exactly the way it was, because what you say can never be exact, you always have to leave something out, there are too many parts, sides, crosscurrents, nuances; too many gestures, which could mean this or that, too many shapes which can never be fully described, too many flavours, in the air or on the tongue, half-colours, too many. But if you happen to be a man, sometimes in the future, and you've made it this far, please remember: you will never be subjected to the temptation of feeling you must forgive, a man, as a woman. It's difficult to resist, believe me. But remember that forgiveness too is power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest. (p.208-209)

There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind...

It is a compliment which I never pay to any place

I am sick of Mr. Bingley," cried his wife.

There's something in our world that makes men lose their heads--they couldn't be fair if they tried.

soon as rosy-fingered morning came forth from the first grey dawn,