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A thoroughly enjoyable romp for Jane Austen fans, not least for the historical bits we don't often hear about in Austen's writings (e.g., the bathroom situation, the smelly people, how 19th-century women handle being "indisposed"). So enjoyable, in f
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“It strikes me that this may be one of the differences between youth and age: when we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves; when we are old, we invent different pasts for others.”
― The Sense of an Ending
― The Sense of an Ending
“Deadlines are a great antidote to insecurity.”
― The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983-1992
― The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983-1992
“I thought I loved him when he went away; I love him now in another degree: he is more my own. [ . . . ] Oh! a thousand weepers, praying in agony on waiting shores, listened for that voice, but it was not uttered--not uttered till; when the hush came, some could not feel it: till, when the sun returned, his light was night to some!”
― Villette
― Villette
“At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this?
And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?”
― Deaf Republic
And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?”
― Deaf Republic
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