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"He was not handsome, and his manners required intimacy to make them pleasing. He was too diffident to do justice to himself; but when his natural shyness was overcome, his behaviour gave every indication of an open, affectionate heart."
- Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility (via littlecontradictor)
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Matthew Macfadyen reads the original first proposal passage of Jane Austen´s classic novel, “Pride and Prejudice”.
“Are you sitting comfortably? Then I´ll begin…”
"They had no conversation together, no intercourse but what the commonest civility required. Once so much to each other! Now nothing! There had been a time… there could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement."
- Jane Austen’s Persuasion (via thatwetshirt)
When people refer to Jane Austen or her novels as “Victorian”
(Source: blushingwings, via theotherausten)
