i can’t bear that they, and everybody, should think people wicked because they may have chosen to live their own way! it is really these opinions that make the best intentioned people reckless, and actually become immoral!
as you got older, and felt yourself to be at the centre of your time, and not at a point in its circumference, as you had felt when you were little, you were seized with a sort of shuddering, he perceived.
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if he could only prevent himself growing up!he did not want to be a man.”
you are part of my existence, part of myself. you have been in every line I have ever read since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then. you have been in every prospect I have ever seen since, on the river, on the sails of the ships, on the marshes, in the clouds, in the light, in the darkness, in the wind, in the woods, in the sea, in the streets. you’ve been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted with. the stones of which the strongest London buildings are made are not more real, or more impossible to be displaced by your hands, than your presence and influence have been to me, there and everywhere, and will be. Estella, to the last hour of my life, you cannot choose but remain part of my character, part of the little good in me, part of the evil.