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“Jung said that beautiful women were sources of terror. That as a general rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.”
― Hausfrau
― Hausfrau
“This was very pleasant; there is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow-creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“The Wendy’s was a low square building with the look of having been slapped together from a kit in an architecturally careless era,”
― Station Eleven
― Station Eleven
“which I hoped to make. None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of science. In other studies you go as far as others have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonder. A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study; and”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
“It does good to no woman to be flattered by her superior, who cannot possibly intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
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