existence as living organisms rather than “personalities,” like characters in a play or a novel acting out some artificial plot in which the persons are simply masks for a conflict of abstract ideas or principles. Man as an organism is to
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“However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“true or false interpretations that I have chosen for myself? We can always question our subjective beliefs, however. We can even take a chainsaw to them; bring the bad ones crashing down. Create new ones. Live out new ones.”
― Free Your Mind
― Free Your Mind
“Why, my dear, you must know, Mrs. Long says that Netherfield is taken by a young man of large fortune from the north of England; that he came down on Monday in a chaise and four to see the place, and was so much delighted with it, that he agreed with Mr. Morris immediately; that he is to take possession before Michaelmas, and some of his servants are to be in the house by the end of next week.”
― Pride and prejudice
― Pride and prejudice
“Haggon’s rough voice echoed in his head. “You will die a dozen deaths, boy, and every one will hurt … but when your true death comes, you will live again. The second life is simpler and sweeter, they say.”
― A Dance with Dragons
― A Dance with Dragons
“His slender legs burned from the exertion, and his lungs continued to gasp for more and more air. Hunting had kept him in good shape. Often, he and his father would chase down deer for miles after shooting them. Deer could”
― The Secret of the Stones
― The Secret of the Stones
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