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If I were as rich as Mr. Darcy," cried a young Lucas, who came with his sisters, "I should not care how proud I was. I would keep a pack of foxhounds, and drink a bottle of wine a day." "Then

So long as road lies before us, and what care we if we must travel it alone!

He was surprised by this absence of reproaches. He stood there all bewildered, the glass globe held arrested in mid-air. He did not understand this quiet sweetness.

They'd peck themselves to death, rather than quit. Who knew what worked? I

There is a silence. But sometimes it's as dangerous not to speak. "Yes,

Was mich richtig umhaut, sind Bücher, bei denen man sich wünscht, wenn man es ganz ausgelesen hat, der Autor, der es geschrieben hat, wäre irrsinnig mit einem befreundet und man könnte ihn jederzeit, wenn man Lust hat, anrufen. Das kommt aber nicht oft vor.

If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away.

In its published form, this book is being read, I assume, in the first years of 2000 A.D. (1935 plus eighty or ninety, live long, my love)...

You listen to people so that you can imagine them, and you hear all the terrible and wonderful things people do to themselves and to one another, but in the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you’re trying to listen to.

The manner in which they spoke of the Meryton assembly was sufficiently characteristic. Bingley had never met

From the very beginning—from the first moment, I may almost say—of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry." "You

The next morning, as she was going downstairs, she was met by her father, who came out of his library with a letter in his hand. "Lizzy," said he, "I was going to look for you; come into my room." She followed him thither; and her curiosity to know what he had to tell her was heightened by the supposition of its being in some manner connected

A través de toda la oscuridad, a través de toda la vergüenza de que son capaces los hombres, el espíritu del hombre permanecerá vivo en esta tierra.

What I think doesn't matter. Which is the only reason he can tell me things.

The Knock at the Door by Ina Boudier-Bakker.

Apoi m-a prezentat ofiţerului de marină. Îl chema Blop, sau aşa ceva, şi era comandor. Era un tip din ăia care se tem că-i consideri homosexuali dacă nu-ţi rup cel puţin patruzeci de degete cînd dau mîna cu tine.

—Fue en esos dos asientos pequeños, uno frente a otro, que siempre son los últimos que quedan libres en el tren. Iba a Nueva York a ver a mi hermana y a pasar la noche. Tom iba vestido de etiqueta, con zapatos de charol, y yo no podía quitarle los ojos de encima, pero, si él me miraba, fingía leer el anuncio que había más arriba de su cabeza. Cuando llegamos a la estación, lo sentí cerca, y la pechera blanca de su camisa me oprimía el brazo, así que le dije que iba a llamar a un policía, pero él sabía que no era verdad. Yo estaba tan excitada cuando me subí con él al taxi que apenas si me di cuenta de que no tomaba el metro. Lo único que pensaba, una y otra vez, era: «No vas a vivir eternamente; no vas a vivir eternamente».

When you wanted me to spend my afternoons sunbathing on the Lake instead of doing my work, I gladly gave in and became a bronzed glamor boy for your sake, instead of remaining a scholar and, well, an educator.

Lacey put a hand to her face, ashamed. You’re a challenging boyfriend, she said. Rewarding, but challenging. We laughed.

One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it