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Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.
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blindness
denial
folly
love
refusal
romance
vanity
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Jane Austen |
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"You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner." (Elizabeth Bennett)"
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behaviour
declaration
empowerment
gentlemanlike
gentlemen
humiliation
love
marriage-proposal
men
mr-darcy
pride
proposal
propriety
refusal
rejection
scorn
self-determination
women
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Jane Austen |
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You despise the real bourgeois classes for all their snobbishness and their snobbish voices and ways. You do, don't you? Yet all you put in their place is a horrid little refusal to have nasty thoughts or do nasty things or be nasty in any way. Do you know that every great thing in the story of art and every beautiful thing in life is actually what you call nasty or has been caused by feelings that you would call nasty? By passion, by love, by hatred, by truth. Do you know that?
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beautiful
beauty
bourgeois
class
classes
despise
feelings
hatred
horrid
life
love
nasty
passion
refusal
snob
snobbish
snobbishness
thought
thoughts
truth
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John Fowles |
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She takes after Laura in that respect: the same tendency towards absolutism, the same refusal to compromise, the same scorn for the grosser human failings. To get away with that, you have to be beautiful. Otherwise it seems mere peevishness.
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compromise
failings
peevishness
refusal
scorn
takes-after
tendency
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