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"In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world."
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"I wanted both things: strength in my independence and also this new desire. This felt like the beginning of a new kind of love."
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"A desire and a goal not to be subservient to another or to be in charge of one's life is a good thing to do."
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"What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!"
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"For [Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice], as for Mr. Darcy, [Elizabeth Bennett's] solitary walks express the independence that literally takes the heroine out of the social sphere of the houses and their inhabitants, into a larger, lonelier world where she is free to think: walking articulates both physical and mental freedom."
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"Self- reliance is the greatest of all virtues my friend."
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"There are times when you have to do things for yourself, not because no one else can do it, but because no one else can do it to the degree you want."
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"I can't be my own person if I constantly require someone else to hold me together."
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"My momma says we don't need a man to do our chores for us, 'cause we are smart and capable and I believe her even though Sara's mom says men were born to be our slaves, we just have to know how to manage them."
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"Jo couldn't even lose her heart in a decorous manner, but sternly tried to quench her feelings, and failing to do so, led a somewhat agitated life. She was mortally afraid of being laughed at for surrendering, after her many and vehement declarations of independence."
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"I can only do what's easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can't, and won't, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who's strong enough to boss me or whom I'm strong enough to boss. So I shan't ever marry, for there aren't such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say 'Jack Robinson."
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"Judgement does not come suddenly, the proceedings gradually merge into the judgement."
Judgment
"Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues."
Beginning
"Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me."
Expression
"German is my mother tongue and as such more natural to me, but I consider Czech much more affectionate, which is why your letter removes several uncertainties; I see you more clearly, the movements of your body, your hands, so quick, so resolute, it's almost like a meeting."
Language
"Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it."
Truth
"Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers."
Awareness
"Life is hard, the earth stubborn, science rich in knowledge but poor in practical results."
Science
"People who walk across dark bridges, past saints,with dim, small lights.Clouds which move across gray skiespast churcheswith towers darkened in the dusk.One who leans against granite railinggazing into the evening waters,His hands resting on old stones."
Poetry
"The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write."
Expression
"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect."
Fiction
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