In Paris, Julien’s relationship with Mme. de Rênal would have been simplified very quickly; but in Paris, love is the child of fiction.
love
money
death
love
— The Red and the Black
— A Sentimental Education So she hadn’t the faintest idea and despised him, since she didn’t think him capable of loving her so much that he couldn’t love anyone else!
— In Search of Lost Time And since there was always lurking in my mind the dream of a woman who would enrich me with her love, that dream in those two summers was quickened with the fresh coolness of running water; and whoever she might be, the woman whose image I called to mind, flowers, purple and red, would at once spring up on either side of her like complementary colours.
— In Search of Lost Time How we love him—as at that moment I loved Françoise—the good-natured intermediary who by a single word has made supportable, human, almost propitious the inconceivable, infernal scene of gaiety in the thick of which we had been imagining swarms of enemies, perverse and seductive, beguiling away from us, even making laugh at us, the woman we love!
— The Man Without Qualities This, for once, was not just a woman dominated by her body and exhibiting a ridiculous yearning to find comfort in a high intellectual tone; here it was the beauty of that body itself uttering its right to the gentle dignity of love.
— Anna Karenina Weary of the monotony of a moral life, as irreproachably moral women in general often are, she not only excused criminal love from a distance but even envied it.
— The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman In love!——said the corporal—your honour was very well the day before yesterday, when I was telling your honour the story of the King of Bohemia—Bohemia! said my uncle Toby— — — — musing a long time — — — What became of that story Trim?
— Sons and Lovers “Ay,” his mother said, “I’m afraid he’s ruining himself against that creature, who isn’t worthy of his love, no, no more than a rag doll.”
— In Search of Lost Time And to the small extent to which this detachment was not absolute, the reason for this new pleasure which Swann was tasting was that he could take refuge for a moment in those few and distant parts of himself which had remained more or less extraneous to his love and to his pain.
— Père Goriot I’ve got this well under way, because she didn’t seem particularly startled, hearing me say, ‘And you, will you love me too?’
— Journey to the End of the Night It looked like feeling my scar and my bump had made her drunk with love all of a sudden!
— The Brothers Karamazov Why, a man cannot commit a sin so great as to exhaust the infinite love of God.
— Anna Karenina To die — and he will repent, pity, love and suffer for me.
— The Brothers Karamazov But if, on the other hand, the father fails to prove to his son that he is worthy of his love, he does not deserve to be his father and the son is free to consider his father as a stranger or even as his enemy.
— Children of Gebelawi He more or less stopped going to the shop, and but for his father’s love and sympathy he would have had nothing to live on.
— Anna Karenina ‘ “Who hast brought into unity those who were sundered, and hast ordained for them an indissoluble bond of love” — how profound these words are, and how well they correspond to what one feels at this moment!’ thought Levin.
— The Man Without Qualities Only love occupies a special position in all this; for it is in this exceptional case that the second half grows on.
— Père Goriot Give me the chance to prove I love you only because you’re you.
— Sons and Lovers And she looked at him lying there, her heart did not warm with love.
— The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman O! there is a sweet æra in the life of man, when, (the brain being tender and fibrillous, and more like pap than any thing else)——a story read of two fond lovers, separated from each other by cruel parents, and by still more cruel destiny——
Amandus——He
Amanda——She——
each ignorant of the other’s course,
He——east
She——west
Amandus taken captive by the Turks, and carried to the emperor of Morocco’s court, where the princess of Morocco falling in love with him, keeps him twenty years in prison, for the love of his Amanda——
She—(Amanda) all the time wandering barefoot, and with dishevell’d hair, o’er rocks and mountains enquiring for Amandus——Amandus! Amandus!—making every hill and vally to echo back his name——
Amandus! Amandus!
at every town and city sitting down forlorn at the gate——Has Amandus!—has my Amandus enter’d?——till,——going round, and round, and round the world——chance unexpected bringing them at the same moment of the night, though by different ways, to the gate of Lyons their native city, and each in well known accents calling out aloud,
Is Amandus
Is my Amanda still alive?
they fly into each others arms, and both drop down dead for joy.
— In Search of Lost Time The important thing was that we should see each other, Gilberte and I, and should have an opportunity of making a mutual avowal of our love which, until then, would not officially (so to speak) have begun.
— Berlin Alexanderplatz He who has kissed by the beautiful sea, while the billows listened and rippled with mirth, he knows what life’s greatest charm can be, he has whispered to love upon this earth.
— The Brothers Karamazov But, believe me, smother this man in mercy and love, and he will curse his wayward past, for there is so much that is promising in him!
— The Man Without Qualities For like all people in love, Diotima enjoyed talking about the object of her love, without—or at least so she believed—betraying herself.
— The Brothers Karamazov Now, a week ago, Mitya suddenly tells me that Ivan is in love with that woman, because he keeps visiting her all the time.
— The Man Without Qualities Arnheim regretted most fervently that he had no spark of that desire which is one and the same in all things and can sweep a man just as easily into an ill-considered business deal as into an ill-considered love-affair, and, regretting this as he did, he began to expatiate on the subject of desire.
— The Golden Notebook ‘But your love, my John, where is your love for me?’
— Anna Karenina ‘But you all love those animal pleasures,’ she said, and again he noticed her gloomy eyes, which avoided him.
— Père Goriot It was not love that led her to detest him, but disappointment.
— The Brothers Karamazov Though He is frightening in His greatness, terrifying in His majesty, He is also infinitely merciful and, out of love, He has made Himself like one of us and shares our joy and turns our water into wine, so that the joy of the guests shall not cease, and He invites more and more guests, unceasingly, more new guests forever and ever.
— Sons and Lovers I love you.
— The Man Without Qualities The inanimate thing also enters, unknown as it is, but full of trust, into the companionship of those who love.
— Middlemarch Then she went towards him, and might have represented a heaven-sent angel coming with a promise that the short hours remaining should yet be filled with that faithful love which clings the closer to a comprehended grief.
money
— The Brothers Karamazov “One question arises now,” Nelyudov said particularly softly; “could you please tell us where you suddenly got hold of all that money, because, from the facts we have established, you cannot possibly have had time even to go home.”
— Père Goriot Anyway, where would you find the money, in the first place?
— The Red and the Black His pallor did him credit in the eyes of his companions, the young seminarists; he found them far less spiteful, less inclined to bow down to money, than those in Besançon; they thought he was consumptive.
— Middlemarch Dorothea’s outpouring of her notions about money, in the darkness of the night, had done nothing but bring a mixture of more odious foreboding into her husband’s mind.
— Absalom, Absalom! Judith came into town one day and brought him the money, some of it, where she got it from he never knew, unless it was what she had left out of the price of the store which he sold for her; brought the money in with the inscription (except the date of death of course) all written out as you see it, during that three weeks while Clytie was in New Orleans finding the boy to fetch him back though your grandfather of course did not know this, money and inscription not for herself but for him.”
— Pedro Páramo It’s money we need, to buy food, even if only a few tortillas and chilis.
— The Brothers Karamazov But then we took her money and spent it, so she couldn’t go back to Petersburg.
— Middlemarch Opinions may be divided as to his wisdom in making this present: some may think that it was a graceful attention to be expected from a man like Lydgate, and that the fault of any troublesome consequences lay in the pinched narrowness of provincial life at that time, which offered no conveniences for professional people whose fortune was not proportioned to their tastes; also, in Lydgate’s ridiculous fastidiousness about asking his friends for money.
— The Brothers Karamazov And that’s where Dmitry has his value: he has no money, but he at least is quite capable of marrying her.
— The Man Without Qualities Thus Arnheim would have spoken, for a voice somewhere deep within him distinctly told him that one could no more do without money than without reason and morality.
— The Brothers Karamazov He certainly would have, because he knew the money was there, since it was put there in his presence.
— The Golden Notebook They are refusing emotion because at the end of every emotion are property, money, power.
— The Brothers Karamazov So why, may I ask, did Smerdyakov have to tell Dmitry Karamazov beforehand both about the money and the secret knocking signals?
— Berlin Alexanderplatz But then he ran out of money.
— Middlemarch Of course, it is sinking money; that is why people object to it.
— Berlin Alexanderplatz The dashing Willi doesn’t have much in the way of money, he’s a quick thinker and a bright fellow, but a beginner among pickpockets, and that’s why he’s leeching off Franz.
— The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman ———And as far as the hundred pounds went, he would fling it upon the table, guinea by guinea, with that spirited jerk of an honest welcome, which generous souls, and generous souls only, are able to fling down money: but as soon as ever he enter’d upon the odd fifty,—he generally gave a loud Hem!—rubb’d the side of his nose leisurely with the flat part of his fore finger,——inserted his hand cautiously betwixt his head and the cawl of his wig,—look’d at both sides of every guinea, as he parted with it,—and seldom could get to the end of the fifty pounds, without pulling out his handkerchief, and wiping his temples.
— The Brothers Karamazov I’ll go to Siberia for it if I must, but I’ll pay you back that money.
— Great Expectations Neither did she ever give me any money or anything but my daily dinner—nor even stipulate that I should be paid for my services.
— The Brothers Karamazov There Was No Money and No Robbery
— Anna Karenina And indeed, a good deal of money had been and was still being spent on this case, altogether unproductively, and it was obvious that the whole case could lead nowhere.
— Berlin Alexanderplatz And then I go down, see, I’d like to take everything off their hands, but downstairs I start to get worried: no money, no money.
— Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Nobody don’t have to pay for the things they buy till a whole day after the auction, on accounts of the short notice, and they ain’t going out of this till they get that money—and the way we’ve fixed it the sale ain’t going to count, and they ain’t going to get no money.
— Anna Karenina If you need money, I will give it to you.
— Père Goriot Restaud is of noble birth, so his wife’s been taken up, she’s been presented at Court, but her sister, her rich sister, the beautiful Madame Delphine de Nucingen, though she’s the wife of a man of money, is dying of envy; jealousy is eating her alive, she’s totally divorced from her sister; indeed, her sister is no longer her sister; these two women have disowned each other exactly as they’ve disowned their father.
— Children of Gebelawi Money mounts up if you’re patient; don’t despair of that.
— Great Expectations ‘I dare say,’ I went on, meaning to be very severe, ‘that you wouldn’t lend money to any of us if we wanted it.’
— The Brothers Karamazov He was met with cynical sneers, suspicious glares, and evasive quibbling about money that he considered his.
— Berlin Alexanderplatz But they don’t come up with anything, we’ve got to the happy end now, Herbert is a pimp as well, the boys have all got these golden girls, they blame them for everything, they claim to have got all their money off them.
— Pedro Páramo I’m giving you the money; the men are just a loan.
— Zorba the Greek I peddled haberdashery from village to village in Macedonia, and instead of money I used to take cheese, wool, butter, rabbits and corn.
— Anna Karenina Power, money, honours — that’s what women are seeking,’ said Pestsov.
— Zorba the Greek Because I’ve no money to pay you!
death
— Metamorphoses He poured—unthanked—sweet perfumes on her breast,
Gave her a loving last embrace, and mourned
With all due obsequies her death undue.
— Metamorphoses You lost her then, then when her death was sure,
Unless her death indeed is what you want
And mean my grief to ease your cruel heart.
— Things Fall Apart He had a bad chi or personal god, and evil fortune followed him to the grave, or rather to his death, for he had no grave.
— Memoirs of Hadrian That death would be in vain if I lacked the courage to look straight at it, keeping in mind those qualities of cold and silence, of coagulated blood and inert members which men cover up so quickly with earth, and with hypocrisy; I chose to grope my way in the dark without recourse to such weak lamps.
— The Brothers Karamazov Exactly three months after Sofia’s death, the General’s widow suddenly appeared in our town, going straight to Mr. Karamazov’s house.
— Middlemarch Nobody supposes that Mr. Lydgate can go on holding up his head in Middlemarch, things look so black about the thousand pounds he took just at that man’s death.
— Metamorphoses Through you the land
Of Epidaurus saw the Club-Bearer,
Laid low; Cephisus’ river banks
Saw cruel Procrustes slain, and Ceres’ town,
Eleusis, saw the death of Cercyon.
— Children of Gebelawi I don’t imagine they can know everything about Gebelawi, his origin, his estate, his dealings with his sons, his contacts with Gebel and Rifaa and Kassem, and be ignorant about his death alone.
— Père Goriot For only in possessing this woman had Eugène realized that, till then, he had simply desired rather than loved her: happiness had created love, since love is sometimes nothing more than the acknowledgement of pleasure.
— Memoirs of Hadrian My death had seemed to me the most personal of my decisions, my supreme redoubt as a free man; I was mistaken.
— Lolita Friend Farlow, who was a lawyer of sorts and ought to have been able to give me some solid advice, was too much occupied with Jean’s cancer to do anything more than what he had promised — namely, to look after Charlotte’s meager estate while I recovered very gradually from the shock of her death.
— The Brothers Karamazov Have You forgotten that peace, and even death, is more attractive to man than the freedom of choice that derives from the knowledge of good and evil?
— Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The men was very huffy, and some of them wanted to hang Jim, for an example to all the other niggers around there, so they wouldn’t be trying to run away, like Jim done, and making such a raft of trouble, and keeping a whole family scared most to death for days and nights.
— Journey to the End of the Night Everyone has his own life … his role … his death …
— The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman ——I would be picquetted to death, cried the corporal, as he concluded Susannah’s story, before I would suffer the woman to come to any harm,—’twas my fault, an’ please your honour,—not hers.
— Ficciones I found it incredible that this day, lacking all omens and premonitions, should be the day of my implacable death.
— History Unity of consciousness: this is the victory of the revolution over death, the end of History, and the birth of God!
— Berlin Alexanderplatz Quickly death and judgment approach.
— Essays An incident not unlike that which befell the city of the Xanthians, who, besieged by Brutus, flew pell-mell, men, women, and children, into such a frenzied craving for death that there is nothing done to escape death which they did not do to escape life; so that only with difficulty could Brutus save a very small number of them.
— Memoirs of Hadrian Egypt, who had witnessed the death agony, would have also her part in the apotheosis: it would be the most secret and sombre part, and the harshest, for this country would play the eternal role of embalmer to his body.
— In Search of Lost Time I can remember them in ’70; in those wretched wars they’ve no fear of death left in them; they’re nothing more nor less than madmen; and then they aren’t worth the price of a rope to hang them with; they’re not men any more, they’re lions.
— Lolita Long after her death I felt her thoughts floating through mine.
— Anna Karenina He lay for several days between life and death.
— History This kind of test (one of the many and various experiments doctors carried out in the Lagers) consisted of subjecting the prisoner to sudden changes in atmospheric pressure; and it normally ended in madness and death through pulmonary hemorrhage.
— The Decameron Please don’t let me be tortured and put to death.
— Memoirs of Hadrian And from then on I was too near my own death to take time for meditation upon those two endings.
— The Recognition of Śakuntalā He walked through the house of death, and straight out on the other side.
— Moby-Dick; or, The Whale You shuddered as you gazed, and wondered what monstrous cannibal and savage could ever have gone a death-harvesting with such a hacking, horrifying implement.
— The Red and the Black “There,” said Mathilde to herself, “that proves my maxim very nicely: high birth robs a man of that strength of character without which he can never get himself condemned to death.
— Things Fall Apart “But you ought to ask why the drum has not beaten to tell Umuofia of his death.”
— Moby-Dick; or, The Whale Here now’s the very dreaded symbol of grim death, by a mere hap, made the expressive sign of the help and hope of most endangered life.
— Sons and Lovers “A sort of hush: the whole night, wondering, and asleep: I suppose that’s what we do in death: sleep on wonder.”
— Memoirs of Hadrian He could hardly stand; this man once so full of vitality seemed more changed than others are by the approach of death.