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The party from Uppercross passing down by the now deserted and melancholy looking rooms, and still descending, soon found themselves on the sea-shore; and lingering only, as all must linger and gaze on a first return to the sea, who ever deserved to look on it at all,

Chapter 11, Persuasion, Jane Austen

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JANE AUSTEN FAVOURITES: Favourite Austen Hero: Captain Frederick Wentworth (Persuasion): ‘A man does not recover from such a passion… with such a woman… He ought not. He does not.’

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“I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman’s inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman’s fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men… Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands.”

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spoke so softly, you couldn’t hear me over the sound of words that we spoke but now we misquote, slowly unwound

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endless list of favorites:

PERSUASION (2007)

Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.

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You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. PERSUASION (1995) dir. Roger Michell

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I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.