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Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.
Prodigious was the amount of life I lived that morning.
You, Jane, I must have you for my own--entirely my own.
I tired of the routine of eight years in one afternoon.
The man of regular life and rational mind never despairs.
Am I hideous, Jane? Very, sir: you always were, you know.
He was the first to recognise me, and to love what he saw.
It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.
It would not be wicked to love me." "It would to obey you.
Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!
Liberty lends us her wings and Hope guides us by her star.
Mademoiselle is a fairy," he said, whispering mysteriously.
But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!
I wished critics would judge me as an author, not as a woman.
Propensities and principles must be reconciled by some means.
The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator.
I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind.
Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.
Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings.
You, sir, are the most phantom-like of all; you are a mere dream
as much good-will may be conveyed in one hearty word as in many.
Unheard-of combinations of circumstances demand unheard-of rules.
A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play.
What delusion has come over me? What sweet madness has seized me?
While I loved, and while I was loved, what an existence I enjoyed!
I only want an easy mind, sir; not crushed by crowded obligations.
What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.
To see and know the worst is to take from Fear her main advantage.
But what is so headstrong as youth? What so blind as inexperience?
If life be a war, it seemed my destiny to conduct it single-handed.
Take my love. One day share my life. Be my dearest, first on earth.
My rest might have been blissful enough, only a sad heart broke it.
There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
I liked my name pronounced by your lips in a grateful, happy accent.
Out of association grows adhesion, and out of adhesion amalgamation.
If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed.
To talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking.
I think I must admit so fair a guest when it asks entrance to my heart.
flattery would be worse than vain; there is no consolation in flattery.
If he were insane, however, his was a very cool and collected insanity.
Intelligence and proper education will give you independence of spirit.
To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only.
The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed.
We should acknowledge God merciful, but not always for us comprehensible.
I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends!
If you don't love another living soul, then you'll never be disappointed.
Fair as a lily, and not only the pride of life, but the desire of his eyes
Nervous alarms should always be communicated, that they may be dissipated.
What have I to do with millions [of people]? The eighty I know despise me.
Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life.