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Dypt rotfestet måtte den være, denne gru for å glide inn i tilintetgjørelsens evige mørke, siden hun enda blev ved med å slepe sig over dagen, gjennem natten — over dagen og gjennom natten. - Nå ja, men denne siste utvei løp jo ikke fra en.

A book may be on any queer subject, but one can at least always be certain how to turn a page and read it.

In town a man can live for a hundred years and never notice that he’s long been dead and buried.

Jeg fryser, for jeg er redd det skal komme dager da kvinner som jeg blir tatt av dage av den alminnelige kirkens menn. Og hvorfor vil de tas av dage, nådige biskop? Fordi de minner dere om at dere har fornektet deres egen sjel og utrustning. Og for hvem? Jo, for Gud, sier dere, for ham som har skapt en himmel over dere og dessuten en jord der det vitterlig er kvinner som setter dere til verden.

'Da jeg kom til dette huset var allerede ligusterhekkene der. Det er mange av dem. Når stormen kommer, hviner de som stål. Vet de, når man er vant til det, er det som å høre sitt eget hjerte.'

Ja fy for satan, ja! Tror du, jeg var kommet på dette av mig selv? Det er jo nettop min ulykke at all ting er blitt besudlet for mig. Fra nu av tror jeg ekkelt og stygt om alle, alle mennesker.

'Over!' repeated Mr Meagles, who appeared (though without any ill-nature) to be in that peculiar state of mind in which the last word spoken by anybody else is a new injury. 'Over! and why should I say no more about it because it's over?'

There was neither education nor progress; generations were multiplied to no purpose. Since each one always began from the same point, centuries went by with all the crudeness of the first ages; the species was already old, and man remained ever a child.

'As I was saying we shall never agree, I suppose, upon this point. No man and woman, would, probably. But let me observe that all histories are against you - all stories, prose and verse. If I had such a memory as Benwick, I could bring you fifty quotations in a moment on my side the argument, and I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men.'

'Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.'

'My God! how you frightened me, Amine. I thought by their firing that you had shown yourself at the window.'

'Indeed I did not; but I thought that when you fired through the door they might return your fire, and you be hurt; so I went to the side of the casement and pushed out on a stick some of my father's clothes, and they who were watching for you fired immediately.'

'Indeed, Amine! who could have expected such courage and such coolness in one so young and beautiful?' exclaimed Philip, with surprise.

'Are none but ill-favoured people brave, then?' replied Amine, smiling.