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It was the house of darkness, the house of dumbness, the house of suffocation. Osmond’s beautiful mind gave it neither light nor air; Osmond’s beautiful mind, indeed, seemed to peep down from a small high window and mock at her.

this guy sucks😔😔

things are happening

It may be taking me months but it shan’t matter, victory will be mine

“Mr. Ralph Touchett, an American who lives in Europe.” That signifirs absolutely nothing - it’s impossiblr that anything could signify less.

it’s ‘I’m tired of the sound of the word; I think it’s grotesque’ but i first read sound of the world which wouldve been a good banger

A woman, perhaps, can get on; a woman, it seems to me, has no natural place anywhere; wherever she finds herself she has to remain on the surface and, more or less, crawl.

and our rustling, quickly-moving, clear-voiced heroine was as agreeable to his sense as the sound of flowing water.

‘You strike me as different from most girls.’

it’s been a line for centuries guys…. leaving the lexicon NEVER