Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes - Page 2

• Reading was very important; the proper exercise and development of one's mind was a paramount duty.

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  Reading, Exercise, Mind

  Elizabeth von Arnim (2016). “The Enchanted April”, p.117, Jester House Publishing

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• Beauty made you love, and love made you beautiful.

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  Beautiful, And Love, Made

  Elizabeth Von Arnim, Elizabeth (2009). “The Enchanted April”, p.120, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Callar y rezar, no sólo es lo mejor, sino lo único que se puede hacer si se quiere ser verdaderamente feliz; pero, avergonzado de pedir cuando he recibido tanto, la única forma de oración que utilizaría sería una forma de thanksgiving.

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  Prayer, Asking, Use

  Elizabeth von Arnim (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth von Arnim (Illustrated)”, p.164, Delphi Classics

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• She had been dragged in the most humiliating of all dusts, the dust reserved for older women who let themselves be approached, on amorous lines, by boys... It had all been pure vanity, all just a wish, in these waning days of hers, still to feel power, still to have the assurance of her beauty and its effects.

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  Beauty, Boys, Vanity

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• Impossible for anyone to conceive the torments of his nights in bed with his beloved one and estranged from her. That turning of backs, that cold space between their two unhappy bodies.

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  Marriage, Night, Space

  Elizabeth Von Arnim, Elizabeth (1990). “Love”, Viking Press

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• Life is an admirable arrangement, isn't it, little mother. It is so clever of it to have June in every year and a morning in every day, let alone things like birds, and Shakespeare, and one's work.

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  Mother, Morning, Clever

  Elizabeth von Arnim (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth von Arnim (Illustrated)”, p.1374, Delphi Classics

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• She made him think of his mother, of his nurse, of all things kind and comforting, besides having the attraction of not being his mother or his nurse.

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  Mother, Thinking, Nurse

  Elizabeth von Arnim (2016). “The Enchanted April”, p.25, Jester House Publishing

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• Who can begin conventional amiability the first thing in the morning?

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  Morning, Firsts, Conventional

  Elizabeth Von Arnim (2006). “Elizabeth and Her German Garden”, p.42, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty - excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable - should persist after the beauty is gone.

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  Beauty, Vanity, Gone

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