love
money
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love

And if you ever fall in love, keep that absolutely secret!

— Père Goriot

Once again, more strongly than ever before, his heart was flooded with immense love, and as he gazed on her he could feel his mind growing numb.

— A Sentimental Education

Kitty had not only assured him that she loved him, but in answering his question about what she could love him for, had even explained to him what for.

— Anna Karenina

I beg the reader will assist me here, to wheel off my uncle Toby’s ordnance behind the scenes,——to remove his sentry-box, and clear the theatre, if possible, of horn-works and half moons, and get the rest of his military apparatus out of the way;——that done, my dear friend Garrick, we’ll snuff the candles bright,—sweep the stage with a new broom,—draw up the curtain, and exhibit my uncle Toby dressed in a new character, throughout which the world can have no idea how he will act: and yet, if pity be akin to love,—and bravery no alien to it, you have seen enough of my uncle Toby in these, to trace these family likenesses, betwixt the two passions (in case there is one) to your heart’s content.

— The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

In spite of his love for Badria, he married a beautiful Gebelite woman and another from Rifaa’s quarter.

— Children of Gebelawi

‘I’m in love with you?’

— To the Lighthouse

And love is guiltless giving of the self, without any possessive egoism.

— History

And as far as I can make out, he’s done nothing but have love affairs ever since.

— The Golden Notebook

On other occasions he told her that the one thing that would make him cease to love her more than anything else would be her refusal to abandon the habit of lying.

— In Search of Lost Time

Ellen did not once mention love between Judith and Bon.

— Absalom, Absalom!

That’s the way it should be—love should come before logic, just as you said.

— The Brothers Karamazov

Don’t I love him more than before?

— Anna Karenina

His love for her, which she was certain of, was flattering and joyful for her.

— Anna Karenina

Fancy you falling in love at your age!

— Season of Migration to the North

Rational love is doubtless more intelligent than true love, but it knows only brief moments of enthusiasm; it is self-conscious, it judges itself continually; far from leading thought astray, it is built on thought alone.

— The Red and the Black

Only some time later did he discover that this man was a well-known and very able lawyer, highly respected in his profession, with a harmless love, into the bargain, of a day’s slaughter with the guns, a welcome figure at pub and club and in all places where sportsmen and legal men sat and talked about masculine affairs instead of art and love.

— The Man Without Qualities

She was in love all right, a real pest …

— Journey to the End of the Night

‘You see,’ said Paul, with his small rake’s grimace, ‘we’re like an old married couple already—we know we’re going to make love in bed tonight, so now we just hold hands.’

— The Golden Notebook

–She’s had no love.

— Sons and Lovers

Though decided in my tastes in love, even there I feared routines.

— Memoirs of Hadrian

You are love.

— The Brothers Karamazov

But that’s not the point, it’s that Lydia — I love her very much, but she’s off her head — naturally fell upon this Landau, and now neither she nor Alexei Alexandrovich can decide anything without him, and so your sister’s fate is now in the hands of this Landau, alias Count Bezzubov.

— Anna Karenina

Every body, said my mother, says you are in love, brother Toby—and we hope it is true.

— The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

I was marvelling, again, how easy it is, living deprived, to forget love, joy, delight.

— The Golden Notebook

Swann referred back to it as to a conception of love and happiness whose distinctive character he recognized at once as he would that of the Princesse de Clèves, or of René, should either of those titles occur to him.

— In Search of Lost Time

And it was only out of pride that she responded to his feelings for her with love, a hysterical, twisted love made up of offended pride, a love that resembled revenge more than love.

— The Brothers Karamazov

Miss Havisham gives you to him, as the greatest slight and injury that could be done to the many far better men who admire you, and to the few who truly love you.

— Great Expectations

I cannot bear to think that any one should die and leave no love behind.

— Middlemarch

If he had been a little less clumsy and had he, with some show of composure, said to this girl, whom he worshipped and who confided such odd secrets in him, “Admit that though I can’t hold a candle to all those gentlemen, it is nonetheless I whom you love,” perhaps she would have been glad to be found out.

— The Red and the Black

“Why, isn’t one hour, one minute of her love worth spending the rest of my life in torture and agony?”

— The Brothers Karamazov

This body deprived of life was their love, the first period of their love.

— Anna Karenina

The Vlasyev girl is completely in love with him.

— Anna Karenina

Gypsy’s curiosity was hot:

Do girls love me?

— The Brothers Karamazov
money

But even so, there was a chance that he’d beat him unconscious and that would give me enough time to pick up the money and then tell Mr. Karamazov that it was Mr. Dmitry who’d taken it after he’d beaten him up.

— The Brothers Karamazov

A little money that had come my way after my father’s death (nothing very grand — the Mirana had been sold long before), in addition to my striking if somewhat brutal good looks, allowed me to enter upon my quest with equanimity.

— Lolita

Admittedly, burdened down by children and the senile as I am, five quid a month is a lot to me—but if I gave Marie five pounds, just to get that poor kid some decent clothes, it would be so much money for them that … she told me, food for the Jackson family costs ten shillings a week.

— The Golden Notebook

And you should have seen the money the village women got out of him!

— The Brothers Karamazov

So what is so extraordinary about his dividing the money and putting half of it aside for that purpose?

— The Brothers Karamazov

Money, pride, and young boys!

— Zorba the Greek

When questioned about how much money he had had on him the previous night, she said she did not know but that she had heard him tell others that he had brought three thousand with him.

— The Brothers Karamazov

For money.

— Pedro Páramo

Anyhow, it’s not a time for me to be drawing money out of my business, and I should wish Lydgate to know that.

— Middlemarch

“With money,” came a carefree voice from the direction of the radio-listeners, “you can buy even the Madonna…” “… and God Almighty,” a second voice, more sarcastic, insisted from the same group.

— History

Within a week you’ll have both men and money at your disposal.

— Pedro Páramo

‘Shuichi got the hospital money from Kinu.’

— The Sound of the Mountain

She has heard that he has abandoned his wife without money, with the two children.

— The Golden Notebook

Knowing that you were in peaceful, secure possession of your money, that you wanted for nothing, was enough to cure all my ills and take away all my sorrows.

— Père Goriot

But no–she comes to me about that, and I have to find the money–

— Sons and Lovers

This is the best sort of news I could have had to carry to Fred Vincy, for he dwelt a good deal on the injury he had done you in causing you to part with money—robbing you of it, he said—which you wanted for other purposes.

— Middlemarch

As if the girl hasn’t had her fingers burnt already, and she’s bringing in money.

— Berlin Alexanderplatz

It was magical talk, words pouring from him like fools’ money, past his two gold teeth, laced with hiccups and brandy, soaring up to the most remote Himalayas of the past, then swooping shrewdly on some present detail, Aadam’s nose for instance, to vivisect its meaning like a mouse.

— Midnight's Children

The money once tucked away, Plewshkin lowered himself into an armchair; he seemed to have run out of topics of conversation.

— Dead Souls

I’m giving you the money; the men are just a loan.

— Pedro Páramo

We must add that, in saying this, he had also in mind a certain French soap that imparted an extraordinary whiteness to the skin and a freshness to the cheeks; he couldn’t remember the name for love or money, but, according to his conjectures, it was to be found near the frontier.

— Dead Souls

“I didn’t spend even five hundred on them,” Mitya commented gloomily, “although I admit I was too drunk to count the money at the time.

— The Brothers Karamazov

And I suppose I’m also jealous because of her money, no?

— The Brothers Karamazov

He gave the money to Hamdaan saying:

‘I was out of my mind with rage; I didn’t mean to injure him.’

— Children of Gebelawi

And I submit that that opposite abyss was, in this instance, his love, a love that flared up like gunpowder; it was for this love that he had to have money, had to have it for more important things even than spending it all on a wild spree with his new love.

— The Brothers Karamazov

Money won’t ever hold things up.

— Anna Karenina

“On nothing–she lives with an old aunt, whom she hates, and takes what bit of money’s given her.”

— Sons and Lovers

One glance sufficed to assure me that it was one of those cheap money boxes called for some reason ‘luizettas’ that you buy in Algiers and elsewhere, and wonder what to do with afterwards.

— Lolita

True, he had never before given him quite so much money at once.

— Middlemarch

Put your money on the table or in your pocket…

— The Brothers Karamazov

Oh, gentlemen, can’t you stop worrying about all these unimportant details—all these hows and whens and whys, and how was it I had to have so much money rather than so much and all that kind of ridiculous stuff.

— The Brothers Karamazov

Now it was, ‘Your son needs so-and-so,’ or ‘Janum, you must give money for such-and-such.’

— Midnight's Children

And with the pretext of money, he had become truly attached to her person: to her old and awkward body, which gave itself to him in her rough, meek, and—oddly—inexpert way, as if in all those years of her trade she still hadn’t learned how to do it; and he was attached to her melancholy smile, to her smell of poverty.

— History
death

My father’s people are frightened, and have to be hauled out of life into death like cattle into a slaughter-house, pulled by the neck.

— Sons and Lovers

Once the city coroner’s verified the cause of death, he gets sewn into a shroud, and then he’ll be buried.

— Père Goriot

Levin had come across the articles they were discussing in magazines, and had read them, being interested in them as a development of the bases of natural science, familiar to him from his studies at the university, but he had never brought together these scientific conclusions about the animal origin of man, about reflexes, biology and sociology, with those questions about the meaning of life and death which lately had been coming more and more often to his mind.

— Anna Karenina

It was thus, standing, with his nails dug into the window frame, that death came to him.

— Zorba the Greek

And her thoughts followed these lines, so that she quite forgot about “the dreadful tragedy,” and it was only when she was going to bed that she remembered “how close to death” she had been earlier that day and mumbled: “Ah, how dreadful, dreadful! …”

— The Brothers Karamazov

One man complains of its ease:

Death, would that you scorned to take the coward’s life, 

And came only to valor!

— Essays

Should it appear in ideas, it is epigrammed to death; if it shows up in events, no measure is too cowardly for our fear.

— The Red and the Black

‘And it might seem good to leave all this vileness and confusion, other people’s and one’s own, but I’m afraid of death, terribly afraid of death.’

— Anna Karenina

The two women were running to and fro in the death chamber, chanting their mirologues while they feverishly rummaged in every little corner.

— Zorba the Greek

They’ve probably fought over me, interminably, in the terrible hours between four and seven in the morning, when they wake in anxiety (but anxiety about what?) and fight to the death.

— The Golden Notebook

And how can I ever forget that I caused his death, and that because of that I must bring him back to life if I can?

— Children of Gebelawi

Now, in allusion to the white, silent stillness of death in this shark, and the mild deadliness of his habits, the French call him Requin.

— Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

One of them was a pathetic cry, Onwumbiko—“Death, I implore you.”

— Things Fall Apart

I don’t mean the mystery of death, which I can’t begin to fathom, but the physical sensation of ceasing to live.

— The Book of Disquiet

A stark, bewildered feeling, as of death, came over me.

— Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

But if she hears that he beat me, a poor feeble old man, half to death, she may very well drop him and come here to pay me a visit…

— The Brothers Karamazov

She kissed his face, and roused his blood, while his soul was apart writhing with the agony of death.

— Sons and Lovers

I was not allowed to see the death of Dr Narlikar as it lay wreathed in saffron flowers on his hard, single bed; but I got to know all about it anyway, because the news of it spread far beyond the confines of his room.

— Midnight's Children

If he could have lived again, he would have shouted to everyone: ‘Don’t be afraid; fear doesn’t ward off death, but it wards off life.

— Children of Gebelawi

Perseus turned

On him the blade Medusa’s death had proved

And plunged it in his breast; then, as he died,

His eyes that swam in death’s dark night looked round

For Athis, and he lay down by his side,

Solaced among the shades to share his death.

— Metamorphoses

Two or three years after that, with the abolition of freedom of the press, of opposition and the right to strike, the setting up of the Special Tribunals, the restoration of the death-penalty, etc., etc., Fascism had established a definitive dictatorship.

— History

But how did he meet his death?

— Berlin Alexanderplatz

And cries, shots, noise, triumph and tumult around Death.

— Berlin Alexanderplatz

For days after she had heard of her death she had seen her thus, putting her wreath to her forehead and going unquestioningly with her companion, a shadow, across the fields.

— To the Lighthouse

“One, M. de La Mole may have me put to death”—and he told the abbé about the suicide note he had left with the marquis—“two, have me filled with holes by Count Norbert, who would challenge me to a duel.”

— The Red and the Black

Those whose deliverance he had longed for would rejoice at his death.

— Children of Gebelawi

God hunt us all, if we do not hunt Moby Dick to his death!

— Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

Death to cuties who stir up calamity!

— Journey to the End of the Night

If the bomb explodes here,” said Bianchon, pointing to the occipital region of the sick man’s head, “we’ve seen some really weird developments: for example, the brain recovers some of its capacity, and death is considerably delayed.

— Père Goriot

I repeated to myself Virgil’s lines devoted to the nephew of Augustus, likewise designated to rule, and whom death stopped short on the way.

— Memoirs of Hadrian

The death of a young man who had not known he was going to commit suicide until the moment of death, when he understood that he had in fact been preparing for it, and in great detail, for months.

— The Golden Notebook

These accounts satisfied me: Lucius demonstrated in Pannonia that he was capable of the seriousness which I expected of him, but from which he might have relaxed, perhaps, after my death.

— Memoirs of Hadrian

This could be compared with what was seen lately of one of our princes, who, hearing at Trent the news of the death of his older brother—a brother in whom lay the support and honor of his whole house—and soon afterward that of a younger brother, his second hope, withstood these two assaults with exemplary steadfastness; but when a few days afterward one of his men came to die, he let himself go at this last accident and, abandoning his resoluteness, gave himself up to sorrow and mourning, so that some argued that he had been touched to the quick only by this last shock.

— Essays