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Marilise

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“Jane: Mr. Rochester, if ever I did a good deed in my life-if ever I thought a good thought-if ever I prayed a sincere and blameless prayer-if ever I wished a righteous wish-I am rewarded now. To be your wife is, for me, to be as happy as I can be on earth.
Mr. Rochester: Because you delight in sacrifice.
Jane: Sacrifice! What do I sacrifice? Famine for food, expectation for content. To be privileged to put my arms round what I value-to press my lips to what I love-to repose on what I trust: is that to make a sacrifice? If so, then certainly I delight in sacrifice.”
― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

tags: marriage

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“What if I fall? Oh, but my darling, what if you fly?”
― Erin Hanson

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“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: books, morality, reading, writing

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Our Shared Shelf — 223071 members — last activity Jan 26, 2026 06:48AM
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Constance Billard Book Club — 2958 members — last activity Aug 03, 2025 07:49AM
A place where Constance Billard St. Jude's students (and friends) can discuss the assigned reading. Feel free to get a good discussion going. I'll b ...more