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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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romance
love
refusal
folly
blindness
denial
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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men
self-determination
women
empowerment
love
gentlemanlike
gentlemen
behaviour
refusal
scorn
declaration
marriage-proposal
humiliation
proposal
mr-darcy
propriety
rejection
pride
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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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hatred
thoughts
feelings
passion
beauty
life
love
truth
bourgeois
despise
horrid
refusal
snobbish
snob
classes
nasty
snobbishness
class
beautiful
thought
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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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peevishness
takes-after
refusal
scorn
failings
compromise
tendency
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