Lara
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“Ladies sheltering behind men, men sheltering behind servants - the whole system's wrong, and she must challenge it.”
― Howards End: Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism
― Howards End: Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism
“Thus, neither having the clue to the other’s secret, they were respectively puzzled at what each revealed, and awaited new knowledge of each other’s character and moods without attempting to pry into each other’s history.”
― Tess of the D'Urbervilles
― Tess of the D'Urbervilles
“They had nothing in common but the English language, and tried by its help to express what neither of them understood.”
― Howards End
― Howards End
“Were they normal? What a question to ask! And it is always those who know nothing about human nature, who are bored by psychology and shocked by physiology, who ask it.”
― Howards End
― Howards End
“She thinks of how much more space a being occupies in life than it does in death; how much illusion of size is contained in gestures and movements, in breathing. Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.”
― The Hours
― The Hours
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