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41 " Me apresuraré a añadir que no me parezco en absoluto a Jane Eyre, que debe de haber hecho concebir esperanzas a tantas mujeres feas que refieren su historia en primera persona... "
― Barbara Pym , Excellent Women
42 " Oh, God, yes! You’d hate sharing a kitchen with me. I’m such a slut,’ she said, almost proudly. "
43 " ...porque yo había observado que los hombres no solían hacer cosas a menos que les gustara hacerlas. "
44 " Well, then, we may as well find somewhere to have tea. After spiritual comes bodily refreshment. "
45 " And somehow I do not think we ever imagined the husbands to be quite so uninteresting as they probably were. "
46 " These are quite obviously the books that nobody reads,’ said Rocky, studying their titles. ‘But it’s a comfort to know that they are here if you ever should want to read them. I’m sure I should find them more entertaining than the more up-to-date ones. Wild Beasts and their Ways; Five Years with the Congo Cannibals; With Camera and Pen in Northern Nigeria; Sunshine and Storm in Rhodesia. I wish people still wrote books with titles like that. Nowadays I believe it simply isn’t done to show a photograph of “The Author with his Pygmy Friends”—we have become too depressingly scientific. "
47 " Perhaps it’s better to be unhappy than not to feel anything at all,’ I said. "
48 " we probably don’t know many of the answers and can’t argue cleverly. And yet I suppose there’s room for the stupid as well, "
49 " Nessun maggior dolore, Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria. "
50 " I always feel that one ought to give men the opportunity for self-sacrifice; their natures are so much less noble than ours. "