“She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me.”
Pride and Prejudice illustration based on the book.
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And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.
Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
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I want no ordinary lover. I want a fucking storm. I want sleepless nights and endless conversation at 4am. I want passion. I want madness. I want someone who's able to make my whole body shiver from a distance and also pull me close to make sense of all my bones.
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“If a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
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"A university degree, four books and hundreds of articles and I still make mistakes when reading. You wrote me "Good morning" and I read it as "I love you".
– Mahmoud Darwish
"You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love–I love–I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on."
– 🎥: Pride And Prejudice (2005)
"And I close my eyes to gaze into those depths, and am almost engulfed in you."
– Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
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“You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.”
Mr. Darcy
"And thanks to women like her, her books, and her quotes, many women today still believe in love (and in men)."
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“Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?”
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
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