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“Of England's patrician class, the author writes: "It was easy to be agreeable when everything was done to keep them in comfort and ease.”
― The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
― The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
“Or music heard so deeply
That it is not heard at all, but you are the music
While the music lasts.”
― Four Quartets
That it is not heard at all, but you are the music
While the music lasts.”
― Four Quartets
“Non ho paura della vita" pensò. "Sono stati solo anni di apprendistato. Terribilmente duri, è vero, ma mi hanno temprata, hanno rafforzato il mio coraggio e il mio orgoglio. E questo mi appartiene, è la mia ricchezza inalienabile. Sono sola, ma la mia solitudine è aspra e inebriante".”
― The Wine of Solitude
― The Wine of Solitude
“I'm Switzerland; neutral as can be, and also with great chocolate.”
― Unwind
― Unwind
“We seemed to think that if there were men we could fight them, and if there were only women—why, they would be no obstacles at all. Jeff, with his gentle romantic old-fashioned notions of women as clinging vines. Terry, with his clear decided practical theories that there were two kinds of women—those he wanted and those he didn't; Desirable and Undesirable was his demarcation. The latter as a large class, but negligible—he had never thought about them at all.”
― Herland
― Herland
Estela’s 2025 Year in Books
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