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"I've really realised that while Henry James is exactly my kind of genius, he isn't for the masses. I was thinking about how to explain the "plot" of what I've read so far and I realised ofc that would be absurd, but also in character study, it's not like I'm learning of types. In fact it's more the interpersonal interactions that really stand out. It's the subtlety of dialogue, the strain of emotion! Beautiful but..." — Sep 10, 2026 03:36PM
"I've really realised that while Henry James is exactly my kind of genius, he isn't for the masses. I was thinking about how to explain the "plot" of what I've read so far and I realised ofc that would be absurd, but also in character study, it's not like I'm learning of types. In fact it's more the interpersonal interactions that really stand out. It's the subtlety of dialogue, the strain of emotion! Beautiful but..." — Sep 10, 2026 03:36PM
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
“If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
“Reader, I married him.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation."
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.”
― Jane Eyre
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.”
― Jane Eyre
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