—There will be nothing singular in his case; and it is singularity which often makes the worst part of our suffering, as it always does of our conduct.

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…she had no resources for solitude…

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Mots clés solitude

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He had an affectionate heart.  He must love somebody.

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Mots clés love

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…Elinor was then at liberty to think and be wretched.

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Mots clés heartbreak

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From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in which she had closed her eyes.

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Mots clés misery

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To such perseverance in willful self-deception Elizabeth would make no reply, and immediately and in silence withdrew; determined, that if he persisted in considering her repeated refusals as flattering encouragement, to apply to her father, whose negative might be uttered in such a manner as must be decisive, and whose behavior at least could not be mistaken for the affectation and coquetry of an elegant female.

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But the inexplicability of the General's conduct dwelt much on her thoughts. That he was very particular in his eating, she had, by her own unassisted observation, already discovered; but why should he say one thing so positively, and mean another all the while, was most unaccountable. How were people, at that rate, to be understood?

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Mots clés honesty literal-meaning

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You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope

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To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment

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She is loveliness itself.

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Mots clés women

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