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“What a mighty pleasant virtue toleration should be when we are right, to be so very pleasant when we are wrong, and quite unable to demonstrate how we come to be invested with the privilege of exercising it!”
― Dombey and Son
― Dombey and Son
“Archer’s New York tolerated hypocrisy in private relations; but in business matters it exacted a limpid and impeccable honesty. It was a long time since any well-known banker had failed discreditably; but every one remembered the social extinction visited on the heads of the firm when the last event of the kind had happened.”
― The Age of Innocence
― The Age of Innocence
“When finally you surrender to us, it must be of your own free will. We do not destroy the heretic because he resists us: so long as he resists us we never destroy him. We convert him, we capture his inner mind, we reshape him. We burn all evil and all illusion out of him; we bring him over to our side, not in appearance, but genuinely, heart and soul. We make him one of ourselves before we kill him.”
― The Complete Works of George Orwell: Novels, Poetry, Essays:
― The Complete Works of George Orwell: Novels, Poetry, Essays:
“The adult world moved around us the way fetid water in a fish tank surrounds the little fish within.”
― Sugar in My Bowl: Real Women Write About Real Sex – A Provocative Anthology Exploring Desire, Bedroom Lives, and Candor
― Sugar in My Bowl: Real Women Write About Real Sex – A Provocative Anthology Exploring Desire, Bedroom Lives, and Candor
“That night Christine Hartmann went to bed with a book she had taken from among the many that lay strewn around the Manor. From an early age she had developed the art of being alone and generally preferred her own company to anyone else’s. She read books at enormous speed and judged them entirely on their ability to remove her from her material surroundings. In almost all the unhappiest days of her life she had been able to escape from her own inner world by living temporarily in someone else’s, and on the two or three occasions that she had been too upset to concentrate she had been desolate.”
― Girl At The Lion d'Or
― Girl At The Lion d'Or
500 Great Books By Women
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