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“I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”
― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“Let the tears which fell, and the broken words which were exchanged in the long close embrace between the orphans, be sacred. A father, sister, and mother, were gained, and lost, in that one moment. Joy and grief were mingled in the cup; but there were no bitter tears: for even grief arose so softened, and clothed in such sweet and tender recollections, that it became a solemn pleasure, and lost all character of pain.”
― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
― Jane Austen

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

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
― Jane Austen, Jane Austen's Letters

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“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

“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.”
― Jane Austen

“What are men to rocks and mountains?”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“When I fall in love, it will be forever.”
― Jane Austen , Sense and Sensibility: The Screenplay

“Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control. ”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“Till this moment I never knew myself.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!”
― Jane Austen, Love and Freindship

“Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I am excessively diverted.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.”
― Jane Austen