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Category: Jude Morgan

Everything about everybody was very soon known by everybody else.

One hesitates to open a new chapter when the old one is not resolved.

Probably no purer incitement to hatred existed, Lydia had found, than being told of anyone or anything: you will love him, her or it. The spirit immediately rose up like a fanged cobra.

hate, humor, love

It is so important to think for yourself.

It is our feelings that guide us and they can never lead us wrong

One wouldn’t wish to tempt fate

I confess I found it somewhat insipid when I last went….it was all so prosy – so bonnety – so whisty and teacuppy – you see, the adjectives for it do not even exist, and I must invent them.

boredom, dullnes, resorts, retreats

Anne’s is a world very like this one, and you can move about in it with familiarity – but not freedom: it is a place of rigorous consequence, where the weak have to give way to the strong, where her governess heroine Agnes must walk as best she can in the cold shade of money and masculinity.

consequence, familiarity, strong, weakness

I am afraid I shall disappoint people’s expectations dreadfully.

No expectations mean there is no risk of disappointment.

Everyone has something of the spiti that animates the artist

I make a rule never to remember anything before last week. It makes life more interesting