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第一炉香：葛薇龙在殖民香港的困境。不仅当时的文化不伦不类，人也没有了尊严，薇龙跟着她的姑妈走上了一条没有真心却绝对有财的路，把自己卖给了乔琪乔。她对爱情的期望已经被打破了，我认为嫁给乔琪只是破罐子破摔，在没有爱情的情况下选择一条当时女孩子”最好”的出路。

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In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease—a terrible passing inclination to die of it. And all of us have like wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.

Book 3, Chapter 6, Triumph

Cowper “The Task”:
Myself creating what I saw

From pg. 340 of Emma, Mr. Knightley talking about Frank Churchill.

“‘Warmth and tenderness of heart, with an affectionate, open manner, will beat all the clearness of head in the world, for attraction’”(272).

“‘I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness. So much the better. I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do. I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be more’”(268).

“‘How often happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!’”(264).

“‘Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly. —It depends upon the character of those who handle it’”(222).

“‘It is very unfair to judge of any body’s conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation. Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be’”(164).

“There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they would do for themselves”(115).

“One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other”(106).