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Like everyone who's ever translated this text, I had some fun.

Madame de Staël understood literature to include philosophy, history, social and political writing.

Lella York, the self-proclaimed queen of passive-aggressive behavior. [Lella's perceptive view of herself]

It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good.

The prize and the punishment are incentives toward unnatural or forced effort, and, therefore we certainly cannot speak of the natural development of the child in connection with them. The

of more than six hundred pages, published in Paris in 1846

I stressed out trying to figure out what I could say. I ate licorice. I stressed some more. I ate Dots. I stressed out even more-and wiped out a bag of Swedish Fish. And then I wrote.

So this was her kingdom: an octagonal house, a roomful of books, and a bear.

I knew it, I just knew it! The person who had the job of writing my life's dialogue used to work on a very low budget soap opera.

The whole Redlands business gave a patina of gravity to his personality

mysterious errand. It was Dylan's day off and he

As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you; but to question the congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists.

My father used to say superior people never make long visits.

Might verse not best confuse itself with fate?

Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.

There is very little pleasure in being snubbed over a task for which one is well qualified. There is, however, quite a bit of pleasure in watching the ones who did the snubbing later eat their own words.

Just as Manda Lewis's impressions of the world had been informed by her reading-- leading her to expect balls, duels, and conveniently timed thunderstorms out of life-- so, too, had mine; but what I expected was intellectual commerce between equals.

Number ... should not be understood solely as a construction of consciousness, but also as an archetype and thus as a constituent of nature both without and within.

Maybe the objective was to make sure we could all vaporize together. One last, wholesome, nuclear family activity.

i'm alternatingly brilliant and witless-and sleepless: bed is just a swamp to roll in.

I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy.

Her fear was infectious, and though I was too young to truly know terror, I felt it in my heart and trembled.

The jolt of fear had burned all the red out of my blood.

There seemed to be endless obstacles preventing me from living with my eyes open, but as I gradually followed up clue after clue it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.