“Precious is sleep, better to be of stone,
while the oppression and the shame still last;
not seeing and not hearing, I am blest;
so do not wake me, hush! keep your voice down.”
― Complete Poems and Selected Letters
while the oppression and the shame still last;
not seeing and not hearing, I am blest;
so do not wake me, hush! keep your voice down.”
― Complete Poems and Selected Letters
“...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.”
― Persuasion
― Persuasion
“There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison”
― Persuasion
― Persuasion
“Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.”
― Persuasion
― Persuasion
“I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men."
"Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.”
― Persuasion
"Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.”
― Persuasion
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