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“Nevertheless, she was still bitter about her failure. It added to that other bitterness, the lesson Fontan had given her, a shameful lesson for which she held all men responsible. Accordingly, she now declared herself very firm, and quite proof against sudden infatuations, but thoughts of vengance took no hold of her volatile brain. What did maintain a hold on it, in the hours where she was not indignant, was an ever-wakeful lust of expenditure, added to a natural contempt for the man who paid, and to a perpetual passion for consumption and waste, which took pride in the ruin of her lovers.”
― Nana
― Nana
“I have tamed that savage stenographic mystery. I make a respectable income by it. I am in high repute for my accomplishment in all pertaining to the art, and am joined with eleven others in reporting the debates in Parliament for a Morning Newspaper. Night after night, I record predictions that never come to pass, professions that are never fulfilled, explanations that are only meant to mystify. I wallow in words. Britannia, that unfortunate female, is always before me, like a trussed fowl: skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape. I am sufficiently behind the scenes to know the worth of political life. I am quite an Infidel about it, and shall never be converted.”
― David Copperfield
― David Copperfield
“There was something very special, but it wasn't inside Josie. It was inside those who loved her.”
― Klara and the Sun
― Klara and the Sun
“Great disorders lead to great conversions. Providence would have its opportunity.”
― Nana
― Nana
“There are not many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we listen and dream, we think but half-formed thoughts, and when as men we try to remember, we are dulled and prosaic with the poison of life. But some of us awake in the night with strange phantasms of enchanted hills and gardens, of fountains that sing in the sun, of golden cliffs overhanging murmuring seas, of plains that stretch down to sleeping cities of bronze and stone, and of shadowy companies of heroes that ride caparisoned white horses along the edges of thick forests; and then we know that we have looked back through the ivory gates into that world of wonder which was ours before we were wise and unhappy. [Celephaïs]”
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