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“An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.”
― Victor Hugo, Ninety-Three

“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
― Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice

“You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be an heroine.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey