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In general, people hold to the belief that however bad things were yesterday, they were better than things are today. What they will like two days ago was even better than yesterday. The farther you go back, the more beautiful and desirable the world becomes.

Paul Auster, In the country of last things

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The last leap is something everyone can understand, and it corresponds to everyone's inner longings:to die in a flash, to obliterate yourself in one brief and glorious moment.I sometimes think that death is the one thing we have any feeling for.

Paul Auster, In the country of last things

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Opinion: Emma Woodhouse is the most naturally charming of all of Austen's female protagonists.

It's difficult to describe or provide quotes for this because to me her charm is pervasive through the entire text. She sparkles constantly even in small and seemingly mundane moments. It is part of her very nature, not something she turns on when in society. There is a light in her eye and a lilt to her voice that flow through the whole text of the novel. I don't know how else to describe it, but it speaks to the brilliance of Jane Austen's writing that she was able to capture this effect so completely in a character with so many self-imposed flaws. I love Emma even when I'm exasperated with her.

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Weeping Susannah, Alona Kimhi

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“What a blessing it is,when undue influence does not survive the grave.”

Emma, Jane Austen

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“If we feel for the wretched, enough to do all we can for them, the rest is empty sympathy, only distressing to ourselves.”

Emma, Jane Austen

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“There are people,who the more you do for them,the less they will do for themselves.”

Emma, Jane Austen

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“Was it a new circumstance for a man of first-rate abilities to be captivated by inferior powers ? Was it new for one, perhaps too busy to seek, to be the prize of a girl who would seek him ?”

Emma, Jane Austen

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“She had been often remiss, her conscience told her so; remiss, perhaps, more in thought than fact; scornful, ungracious. But it should be so no more.”

Emma, Jane Austen

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Whenever you are transplanted, like me, Miss Woodhouse, you will understand how very delightful it is to meet with any thing at all like what one has left behind. I always say this is quite one of the evils of matrimony.

Emma, Jane Austen

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“A mind lively and at ease,can do with seeing nothing,and can see nothing that does not answer.”

Emma, Jane Austen

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how you gonna post quotes from books riddled with typos 🤔🤨 did u forget about the academics in dark academia

sorry English is not my mother language .. i will try my best to fix them in the future. thanks for the message !

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The first error and the worst lay at her door. It was foolish, it was wrong, to take so active a part in bringing any two people together. It was adventuring too far, assuming too much, making light of what ought to be serious, a trick of what ought to be simple. She was quite concerned and ashamed, and resolved to do such things no more.

Emma, Jane Austen

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"A single woman, with a very narrow income, must be ridiculous,disagreeable,old maid ! the proper sport of boys and girls; but a single woman,of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasent as anybody else."

Jane Austen, Emma

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''It was much easier to chat than to study; much pleasanter to let her imagination range and work at Harriet's fortune, than to be labouring to enlarge her comprehension or exercise it on sober facts.''

Jane Austen, Emma

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''Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.''

Jane Austen, Emma

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