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That once I was not and that now I am. That one day I shall no longer be.
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Darcy took the view that if family amity required him to meet people with whom he had little in common, it were best done at their expense not his.
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The emotion he felt towards her was as mysterious as it was irrational. He needed to understand it, to define its nature, to analyse what he knew was beyond analysis. But some things now he did know, and perhaps they were all he needed to know. He wished her only good. He would put her good before his own. He could no longer be separate himself from her. He would die for her life.
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Love. Is that so very important? You were a teacher, you ought to know. Is it?" "It's vital. If a child has it for the first ten years, hardly anything else matters. If he hasn't, then nothing does."
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We should not, perhaps, assume that nature has a purpose.
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We need, all of us, to be in control of our lives, and we shrink them until they're small and mean enough so that we feel in control.
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This planet is doomed anyway. Eventually the sun will explode or cool and one small insignificant particle of the universe will disappear with only a tremble.
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Even as a child, I had a sense that I was two people; the one who experienced the trauma, the pain, the happiness, and the other who stood aside and watched with a disinterested ironic eye.
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perspective-on-life
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They had lived to see their simple patriotism derided, their morality despised, their savings devalued. They caused no trouble. Millions of pounds of public money wasn't regularly siphoned into their neighbourhoods in the hope of bribing, cajoling or coercing them into civic virtue. If they protested that their cities had become alien, their children taught in overcrowded schools where 90 per cent of the children spoke no English, they were..
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I love you, Guy, and I think I shall go on loving you, but I'm not in love. I've had that and it was a torment, a humiliation and a warning. So now I'm settling for a quiet life with someone I respect and am very fond of and want to spend my life with.
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physiognomy.
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impresionante
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o'clock
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I had to make a moral decision. If you are proposing to commit a sin it is as well to commit it with intelligence. Otherwise, you are insulting God as well as defying him, don't you think?
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Pleasure need not be less keen because there will be centuries of springs to come, their blossom unseen by human eyes, the walls will crumble, the trees die and rot, the gardens revert to weeds and grass, because all beauty will outlive the human intelligence which records, enjoys and celebrates it.
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No hay un arte que descubra en un rostro la construccion de un alma. Fue un caballero en quien depositamos la mas absoluta confianza.>>
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Sale
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Dictating condolences to the mother of a murdered husband whom you've been busily cuckolding for the last three years would take more than his limited social vocabulary.
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wicked
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Miss Bingley was particularly anxious at the time not to leave the capital. Her pursuit of a widowed peer of great wealth was entering a most hopeful phase. Admittedly without his peerage and his money he would have been regarded as the most boring man in London, but one cannot expect to be called "your grace" without some inconvenience."
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Mr. Collins] began by stating that he could find no words to express his shock and abhorrence, and then proceeded to find a great number, few of them appropriate and none of them helpful.
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ridiculous,
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But gratitude can be the very devil sometimes, particularly if you have to be grateful for services you'd rather be without.
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Charlotte had not been the eldest of a large family without acquiring some skill in the management of male delinquencies and her method with her husband was ingenious. She consistently congratulated him on qualities that he did not possess in the hope that, flattered by her praise and approval, he would acquire them.
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He still attended every Sunday. It was as much a part of his routine as buying the same two Sunday newspapers at the same stall on his way home, the luncheon taken from the fridge and heated up in obedience to Erik's written instructions, the short afternoon walk through the park, then the hour of sleep and the evening of television. The
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Good. I do dislike discussing wine longer than I need.
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There are few activities so agreeable as spending a friend's money to your own satisfaction and his benefit,
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P.D. James |
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and faded like a thin ghost into the spring air.
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reinforced my initial prejudice against what, with the intolerance of youth, I thought of as a type.
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P.D. James |
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It is generally accepted that divine service affords a legitimate opportunity for the congregation to assess not only the appearance, deportment, elegance and possible wealth of new arrivals to the parish, but the demeanour of any of their neighbours known to be in an interesting situation, ranging from pregnancy to bankruptcy.
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what did that matter? Despite what he had said to his aunt
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He was thirty-four when he married and the decision was less an impulse of sexual or psychological need than a conviction that there was something slightly suspect about a heterosexual who remained openly celibate, a suggestion either of eccentricity or, more shaming, of the inability to attract a suitable mate.
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Before he turned again the to the car his eye was caught by a small clump of unknown flowers. The pale pinkish white heads rose from a mossy pad on top of the wall and trembled delicately in the light breeze. Dalgliesh walked over and stood stock still, regarding in silence their unpretentious beauty. He smelt for the first time the clean half-illusory salt tang of the sea. The air moved warm and gentle against his skin. He was suddenly suf..
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he had felt for the Gearings. But he had made a promise and it was one he knew he would have to
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P.D. James |
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He was a mild-voiced man with the face of a depressed St. Bernard dog who gave the impression of having wandered into the proceedings by mistake.
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Mrs. Maxie wondered whether anyone could be as stupid as Sir Reynold appeared to be
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Dalgliesh told himself that he should have remembered what, as a small boy, he had discovered about Uncle Hubert's conscience--that it operated as a warning bell and that, unlike most people, Uncle Hubert never pretended that it hadn't sounded or that he hadn't heard it or that, having heard it, something must be wrong with the mechanism.
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P.D. James |
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This is a Christian country, my dear brother, and the wages of sin are supposed to be death, not eight bob of the taxpayers' money.
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P.D. James |
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Murder changes everything.
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P.D. James |
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were. It was as pointlessly presumptuous to try to change them as it was impertinent to pity them.
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P.D. James |
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It was reasonable to struggle, to suffer, perhaps even to die, for a more just, a more compassionate society, but not in a world with no future where, all too soon, the very words justice, compassion, society, struggle, evil, would be unheard echoes on an empty air.
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P.D. James |
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Bereavement is like a serious illness. One dies or one survives, and the medicine is time, not a change of scene.
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P.D. James |
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He had begun the diary less as a record of his life (for whom and why? What life?) than as a regular and a self-indulgent exploration, a means of making sense of the past years, part catharsis, part comforting affirmation. The diary, which had become a routine part of his life, was pointless if he had to censor, to leave out, if he had to deceive not illumine.
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P.D. James |
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going
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P.D. James |
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Unmarried, solitary, unsociable; why should I expect my writing to be any more successful than my life?
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