Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes - Page 2

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• On wet days I will go into the thickest parts of the forest, where the pine needles are everlastingly dry, and when the sun shines I'll lie on the heath and see how the broom flares against the clouds. I shall be perpetually happy, because there will be no one to worry me.

  Elizabeth von Arnim

  Lying, Clouds, Worry

  Elizabeth Von Arnim (2005). “The Solitary Summer”, p.5, 1st World Publishing

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

  Elizabeth von Arnim

  Reading, Exercise, Mind

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

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• ... without it (love), without, anyhow, the capacity for it, people didn't seem to be much good. Dry as old bones, cold as stones, they seemed to become, when love was done; inhuman, indifferent, self-absorbed, numb.

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  Love, Self, People

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  Elizabeth von Arnim

  Mother, Morning, Clever

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

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