"Fanny! You are killing me!" "No man..." - Quote by Jane Austen
Fanny! You are killing me!" "No man dies of love but on the stage, Mr. Crawford.
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“[W]here other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.”
“The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.”
“How can you contrive to write so even?”
More on Love
“It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.”
“Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend.”
“You may learn to imitate a birdcall, but do you experience what the nightingale feels for the rose?”
More on Drama
“The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.”
“Can you feel that there is something in you that is at war, something that feels threatened and wants to survive at all cost, that needs the drama in order to assert its identity as the victorious character within that theatrical production? Can you feel there is something in you that would rather be right than at peace?”
“The popular definition of tragedy is heavy drama in which everyone is killed in the last act, comedy being light drama in which everyone is married in the last act.”