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“Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.”
― The Age of Innocence
― The Age of Innocence
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“Beauty (was)a gift which, in the eyes of New York, justified every success, and excused a certain number of failings.”
― The Age of Innocence
― The Age of Innocence
“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry - architecture being the least banal derivative of the latter.”
― The Age of Innocence
― The Age of Innocence
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