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“A sensible woman would rather lose her wits than her beauty.”
Sayfa 13
Bugünlerde o kadar çok insan isim yapıyor ki, karanlıkta kalmak daha seçkin.
Yaşamın ölçümü, gerçek uzunluğundan çok, içerdiği deneyimin yoğunluğuyla orantılı olmalıdır.
'Love is new, and fresh to us as the dew; and we are together. As the lover's world goes, this is a great deal. Stephen, I fancy I see the difference between me and you - between men and women generally, perhaps. I am content to build your happiness on any accidental basis that may lie near at hand; you are for making a world to suit your happiness.'
'Oh, do come again, Mr Smith!' She said prettily.
'I should delight in it; but it will be better if I do not.'
'Why?'
'Certain circumstances in connection with me make it undesireable. Not on my account; on yours.'
'Goodness! As if anything in connection with you could hurt me.'
Sayfa 38Kitabı yarım bıraktı
Klasik soru, klasik cevap
'Stephen, suppose that I and this man Knight of yours were both drowning, and you could only save one of us -'
'Yes - the stupid old proposition - which would I save?'
'Well, which? Not me.'
'Both of you,' he said, pressing her pendent hand.
Every woman who makes a permanent impression on a man is usually recalled to his mind's eye as she appeared in one particular scene, which seems ordained to be her special form of manifestation throughout the pages of his memory.