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“I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blest -- blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband's life as fully as he is mine.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“For man never reasons so much and becomes so introspective as when he suffers ; since he is anxious to get at the cause of his sufferings, to learn who has produced them, and whether it is just or unjust that he should have to bear them. On the other hand, when he is happy, he takes his happiness as it comes and doesn't analyse it, just as if happiness were his right.”
― Six Characters in Search of an Author
― Six Characters in Search of an Author
“THE FATHER: But don't you see that the whole trouble lies here? In words, words. Each one of us has within him a whole world of things, each man of us his own special world. And how can we ever come to an understanding if I put in the words I utter the sense and value of things as I see them; while you who listen to me must inevitably translate them according to the conception of things each one of you has within himself. We think we understand each other, but we never really do.”
― Six Characters in Search of an Author
― Six Characters in Search of an Author
“Так же вот бывают люди, которые всегда говорят одни только умные и хорошие слова, но чувствуешь, что они тупые люди.”
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