“Love is not love which alters it when alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove: O no! It is an ever fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken; it is the star to every wandering bark whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come: Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, but bears it out, even to the edge of doom.”
― Shakespeare's Sonnets
― Shakespeare's Sonnets
“Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”
― Emma
― Emma
“From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“I cannot let you burn me up, nor can I resist you. No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.”
― Possession
― Possession
“In Germany, for a long time, the purpose of history was to ensure it could never happen again.” —MICHAEL STÜRMER”
― Germany: Memories of a Nation
― Germany: Memories of a Nation
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