Upon my word," said her ladyship, "you give your opinion very decidedly for so young a person. Pray, what is your age?

Jane Austen

Mots clés lady-catherine-de-bourgh

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What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on me without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature. It was forced on me by the very person whose prior claims ruined all my hope. I have endured her exultations again and again whilst knowing myself to be divided from Edward forever. Believe me, Marianne, had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.

Jane Austen

Mots clés classics heartbreak stoicism

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To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect

Jane Austen

Mots clés love hope wish expectations expect

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Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried. Her father had most cruelly mortified her, by what he said of Mr. Darcy's indifference, and she could do nothing but wonder at such a want of penetration, or fear that perhaps, instead of his seeing too little, she might have fancied too much.

Jane Austen

Mots clés indifference elizabeth darcy fancied-too-much

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My beloved Laura” (said she to me a few Hours before she died) “take warning from my unhappy End …Beware of fainting-fits…Beware of swoons, Run mad as often as you chuse; but do not faint—”.

Jane Austen

Mots clés jane-austen mansfield-park love-and-freindship

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It is only poverty that makes celibacy contemptible. A single woman of good fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.

Jane Austen

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Anne always contemplated them as some of the happiest creatures of her acquaintance; but still, saved as we all are, by some comfortable feeling of superiority from wishing for the possibility of exchange, she would not have given up her own more elegant and cultivated mind for all their enjoyments; and envied them nothing but that seemingly perfect good understanding and agreement together, that good-humoured mutual affection, of which she had known so little herself with either of her sisters.

Jane Austen

Mots clés austen

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...the more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.

Jane Austen

Mots clés jane-austen marianne-dashwood sense-and-sensibility

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I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love

Jane Austen

Mots clés love poetry

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There could have never been two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.

Jane Austen

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