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... [In 'Pride and Prejudice'] Mr Collins's repulsiveness in his letter [about Lydia's elopement] does not exist only at the level of the sentence: it permeates all aspects of his rhetoric. Austen's point is that the well-formed sentence belongs to a self-enclosed mind, incapable of sympathetic connections with others and eager to inflict as much pain as is compatible with a thin veneer of politeness. Whereas Blair judged the Addisonian sentence as a completely autonomous unit, Austen judges the sentence as the product of a pre-existing moral agent. What counts is the sentence's ability to reveal that agent, not to enshrine a free-standing morsel of truth. Mr Darcy's letter to Elizabeth, in contrast, features a quite different practice of the sentence, including an odd form of punctation ... The dashes in Mr Darcy's letter transform the typographical sentence by physically making each sentence continuous with the next one. ... The dashes insist that each sentence is not self-sufficient but belongs to a larger macrostructure. Most of Mr Darcy's justification consists not of organised arguments like those of Mr Collins but of narrative. ... The letter's totality exists not in the typographical sentence but in the described event.


Andrew Elfenbein


#jane-austen #linguistics #style #grammar

Deceit dispels the boredom of the Absolute.


Dejan Stojanovic


#boredom #deceit #dejan-stojanovic #dispelling #literature

Although personal calling I sense, Who am I? even if I am, I don't know.


Dejan Stojanovic


#circling #dejan-stojanovic #literature #literature-quotes #personal-calling

Why do we choose sadness over happiness, when we are hurting? answer is simple, because every other emotion just feels wrong, depending upon how well you can lie to yourself and convince yourself to feel happy again. But if you want to heal your wounds, Let sadness take its course. It helps you recognize your faults and make peace with your inner self, let it take its time and when the time is right you shall feel happy again, most importantly in control and satisfied.


Sneha Agarwal


#hurting #inner-peace

And so I just kept writing to myself.


Kimberly Novosel


#journaling #writer #writers #writing #love

Will you, then, never grow weary of being unjust?


Pierre Choderlos de Laclos


#affection #behavior #conduct #feelings #love

I may be permitted, like the doctors, to cure a greater evil by a less, for I shall not fall seriously in love with the young widow, I think, nor she with me - that's certain - but if I find a little pleasure in her society I may surely be allowed to seek it; and if the star of her divinity be bright enough to dim the lustre of Eliza's, so much the better, but I scarcely can think it


Anne Brontë


#falling-in-love #pleasure #society #love

...you don't need a calling to minister love...


John Geddes


#love #minister #wisdom #love

Kita tidak selalu menemukan keajaiban dalam kehidupan, tapi untukku momen itu istimewa, the best kind of magic there is. Sejauh yang dapat kuingat, momen itulah aku benar-benar jatuh cinta kepadanya.


Winna Efendi


#love #magic #love

The smell of her hair lingered just out of reach of his memory and left him with a nervous hum resonating throughout his body like a child forced to sit in church while the sun was shining outside on a perfectly good summer's day.


Erik Tomblin


#falling-in-love #infatuation #summer #sweet-abandon #youthfulness






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