Anh muốn tìm lại một cái gì đó - một quan niệm về mình chăng - đã mất đi khi anh đem lòng yêu Daisy. Cuộc đời anh đã trở nên lộn xộn và bừa bãi từ ngày ấy, nhưng giá anh có thể dù chỉ một lần thôi trở lại một điểm xuất phát nào đấy và chầm chậm đi lại quãng đường đã qua, may ra anh sẽ tìm ra được cái đó là gì...
I adore her so horribly. No: ‘horribly’ is the wrong word. The elation with which the vision of new delights filled me was not horrible but pathetic. I qualify it as pathetic. Pathetic – because despite the insatiable fire of my venereal appetite, I intended, with the most fervent force and foresight, to protect the purity of that twelve-year-old child. And
...I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!""I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love," said Darcy."Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away.
Elizabeth, that for some time all intercourse was at an end. But at length, by Elizabeth's persuasion, he was prevailed on to overlook the offence, and seek a reconciliation; and, after a little further resistance on the part of his aunt, her resentment gave way, either to her affection for him, or her curiosity to see how his wife conducted herself; and she