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Poseo bastantes defectos, pero creo que no proceden de mi entendimiento.

She longed to know what at the moment was passing in his mind—in what manner he thought of her, and whether, in defiance of everything, she was still dear to him. Perhaps he had been civil only because he felt himself at ease; yet there had been that in his voice which was not like ease. Whether he had felt more of pain or of pleasure in seeing her she could not tell, but he certainly had not seen her with composure.

There’s something in our world that makes men lose their heads—they couldn’t be fair if they tried. In our courts, when it’s a white man’s word against a black man’s, the white man always wins. They’re ugly, but those are the facts of life. Doesn’t

Ladies bathed before noon, after their three o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft tea-cakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcolm.

Accepted authority rests first of all on reason.

I want to keep on living, in any form. I resign my body freely, to the uses of others. They can do what they like with me. I am abject.I feel, for the first time, their true power.

But who can remember pain, once it's over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain

Sono lo Sceicco d'ArabiaIl tuo amore mi appartiene.Di notte, quando non riesci a dormire,ti adulerò nella tua tenda.

Quería saber de él cuando ya no había la más mínima oportunidad de tener noticias suyas. Estaba convencida de que habría podido ser feliz con él, cuando era probable que no se volvieran a ver.

that every unpleasant circumstance attending it ought to be forgotten. You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

People in their right minds never take pride in their talents,

Thoughts of suicide to stop it all now while I am still in control and aware of the world around me. But then I think of Charlie waiting at the window. His life is not mine to throw away. I've just borrowed it for a while, and now I'm being asked to return it.

  Let us not then suspect our happie State   Left so imperfet by the Maker wise,   As not secure to single or combin'd.   Fraile is our happiness, if this be so,   And EDEN were no EDEN thus expos'd.

Why don't women have to prove to one another that they are women?

Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I repeat this to myself but it conveys nothing. You might as well say, Don’t let there be air; or, Don’t be.

Herkes temel erdemlerden hiç değilse bir tanesini taşıdığını düşünür. Bana gelince: ben bugüne dek tanıdığım üç beş dürüst insandan biriyim.

… and Darcy had never been so bewitched by any woman as he was by her.

I thank you for my share of the favour," said Elizabeth; "but I do not particularly like your way of getting husbands.

It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

The Radley Place was inhabited by an unknown entity the mere description of whom was enough to make us behave for days on end; Mrs. Dubose was plain hell.