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“Let us have the luxury of silence.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“I was quiet, but I was not blind.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“…Найдите мне, князь, сюжет для картины.
— Я в этом ничего не понимаю. Мне кажется: взглянуть и писать.
— Взглянуть не умею.”
― Федор Достоевский, Идиот

“We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“None but a woman can teach the science of herself.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“Maria was married on Saturday. In all important preparations of mind she was complete, being prepared for matrimony by a hatred of home, by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry. The bride was elegantly dressed and the two bridesmaids were duly inferior. Her mother stood with salts, expecting to be agitated, and her aunt tried to cry. Marriage is indeed a maneuvering business.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“Her feelings were very acute, and too little understood to be properly attended to. Nobody meant to be unkind, but nobody put themselves out of their way to secure her comfort.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“After they had skated around the pond several times, my father asked my mother to marry him. I expect he did it awkwardly, but awkwardness in men was a sign of sincerity then.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“Как грустно мне твое явленье,
Весна, весна! пора любви!
Какое томное волненье
В моей душе, в моей крови!
С каким тяжелым умиленьем
Я наслаждаюсь дуновеньем
В лицо мне веющей весны
На лоне сельской тишины!”
― Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
― Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless

“The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky