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“In his fairy dreams of war [Thaddeus] always made conquest the sure end of his battles.”

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Jane Porter was an English novelist born on January 17, 1776, and died on May 24, 1850. Known for her delicate emotional descriptions and rich imagination, her works have had a profound impact on literature. more

“I've lived in a preindustrial (rural Argentina) as well as an industrial world. You experience a different sense of time in a community that works the land. Human relationships aren't professionalized or contractualized; family and friends take primacy. Life has much more continuity than discontinuity. There's a great deal of poetry in everyday life.”

World Humans Wells Different Time Community Deals Land Everyday Everyday Life Family And Friends Continuity Human Relations Human Relationships Argentina Life Time Primacy Discontinuity

Author:Shoshana Zuboff

“I was brought up among the sort of self-important women who had a husband as one has an alibi.”

Important Self Husband

Author:Anita Brookner

“I am 46, and have been for some time past.”

Has Beens Age Past Times Past

Author:Anita Brookner

“One loses the capacity to grieve as a child grieves, or to rage as a child rages: hotly, despairingly, with tears of passion. One grows up, one becomes civilized, one learns one's manners, and consequently can no longer manage these two functions - sorrow and anger - adequately.”

Children Two Passion Grows Loses Growing Up Tears Sorrow Capacity Function Rage Manage Manners Grieving Civilized

Book:Brief lives

Source: Brief lives

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