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judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person,

Do I just keep leaving places, and leaving them, and leaving them, tramping a perpetual journey?

But consider your daughters. Only think what an establishment it would be for one of them. Sir William and Lady Lucas are determined

Mary was the only daughter who remained at home; and she was necessarily drawn from the pursuit of accomplishments by Mrs. Bennet's being quite unable to sit alone. Mary was obliged to mix more with the world, but she could still moralize over every morning visit; and as she was no longer mortified by comparisons between her sisters' beauty and her own, it was suspected by her father that she submitted to the change without much reluctance.

That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before. You do that first, in your head, and then you make it real. So that's how they do it, I thought. I seemed never to have known that before. Luke

The difference between lie and lay. Lay is always passive. Even men used to say, I'd like to get laid.

Voi abitate a West Egg" disse con fare sprezzante. "Conosco qualcuno laggiù." "Io non conosco nessuno." "Dovete conoscere Gatsby." "Gatsby?" chiese Daisy. "Che Gatsby?

I have courted prepossession and ignorance, and driven reason away, where either were concerned. Till this moment I never knew myself.

There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense. I

So now that we don't have different clothes," I say, "you merely have different women," This is irony, but he doesn't acknowledge it.

To go through all that and give birth to a shredder: it wasn't a fine thought. We didn't know exactly what would happen to the babies that didn't get passed, that were declared Unbabies. But we knew they were put somewhere, quickly, away.

One can’t have something for nothing.

Her throat, full of aching, grieving beauty, told only of her unexpected joy.

two elder sisters. In society so superior to what she had generally known, her improvement was great. She was not of so ungovernable a temper

Daughters are never of so much consequence to a father.

We hugged her to us, she was with us in secret, a giggle; she was lava beneath the crust of daily life.

El invierno no es tan peligroso. Necesito la insensibilidad, el frío, la rigidez; no esta pesadez, como si yo fuera un melón sobre un tallo, esta madurez líquida.

If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life,

Her thoughts were all fixed on that one spot of Pemberley House, whichever it might be, where Mr. Darcy then was. 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.

Mary, who having, in consequence of being the only plain one in the family, worked hard for knowledge and accomplishments, was always impatient for display.