But John, my John, it was only one little lipstick, one little red lipstick that I bought, for the making of my thirsty lips more beautiful for you, my love, and when I was buying of it I saw his cold blue eyes hot on my maiden thighs, and I ran, I was running my love, back from the store to you, to my love, my lips red for you, for you my John my man.
love
money
death
love
— The Golden Notebook
— The Red and the Black And each of those raptures of love is dated! … one from the day before yesterday.
— Metamorphoses When I saw my wife again,
My heart was overcome and my resolve
To test her love and honour almost failed;
I hardly stopped myself confessing all,
Stopped myself kissing her as she deserved.
— The Man Without Qualities Even what they called national feeling, this fusion of their everlastingly contending separate egos into dreamed-of unity, which they referred to as ‘the Germano-Christian commonweal’, had, when contrasted with the gnawing love-relations of their elders, something of the winged Eros about it.
— Anna Karenina ‘I’m already in love.’
— Sons and Lovers He held forth on the love of ornament—the cottage parlor moved him thereto—and its connection with aesthetics.
— Season of Migration to the North Fancy you falling in love at your age!
— The Golden Notebook Though of course he wanted to call it Forbidden Love.
— Anna Karenina Just as he loved and praised country life in contrast to the life he did not love, so he loved the peasantry in contrast to the class of people he did not love, and so he knew the peasantry as something in contrast to people in general.
— Journey to the End of the Night And by the same token there would be so much love that Death would be shut up inside it with tenderness, and Death would be so cosy-comfortable in there, the bitch, that she’d finally start enjoying herself, she’d get pleasure out of love along with everyone else.
— Absalom, Absalom! I sat there and felt not watched him slip the ring onto my finger in my turn (he was sitting now also, in the chair which we called Clytie’s while she stood just beyond the firelight’s range beside the chimney) and listened to his voice as Ellen must have listened in her own spirit’s April thirty years ago: he talking not about me or love or marriage, not even about himself and to no sane mortal listening nor out of any sanity, but to the very dark forces of fate which he had evoked and dared, out of that wild braggart dream where an intact Sutpen’s Hundred which no more had actual being now (and would never have again) than it had when Ellen first heard it, as though in the restoration of that ring to a living finger he had turned all time back twenty years and stopped it, froze it.
— Middlemarch Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.
— The Red and the Black “That woman’s in love with me,” he told himself.
— A Sentimental Education Sometimes she’d pose as a woman of the world and laugh at love in a sneering way that made Frédéric itch to smack her face.
— Anna Karenina At first, after he had united with her and put on civilian clothes, he felt all the enchantment of freedom in general, which he had not known before, and of the freedom of love, and he was content, but not for long.
— Lolita I hope you will love your baby.
— Zorba the Greek So one comes to love them and cannot let them perish.
— Sons and Lovers “I love cornflowers on things,” said Paul.
— The Man Without Qualities The object of this yearning was actually Ulrich, and Soliman was cast in the role of the man whom one does not love and to whom one will nevertheless abandon oneself—a point on which Rachel was in no sort of doubt whatsoever.
— Anna Karenina What could you love me for?
— The Brothers Karamazov They knew that the two women contending for his love would appear at the trial.
— Journey to the End of the Night In the kitchens of love, after all, vice is like the pepper in a good sauce; it brings out the flavor, it’s indispensable.
— The Brothers Karamazov I’ve come to love it so much, in fact, that it’s really quite disgusting.
— The Red and the Black He kept repeating to himself wrathfully a line from Corneille that Mme. Derville had taught him a few days before: “Love creates equalities and does not seek them.”
— Anna Karenina ‘Poor unfortunate man!’ thought Levin, and tears came to his eyes from love and pity for the man.
— Metamorphoses For long his words seemed vain; what they concealed
The lad’s strange death and stranger love revealed.
— Journey to the End of the Night Then they were swearing to love each other forever and ever and nothing could stop them, the heavens weren’t big enough.
— Metamorphoses The waters of her pool
Fell silent; from the depths their goddess raised
Her head and, combing her green tresses dry,
Told the old story of Alpheus’ love.
— Anna Karenina She kept them hidden, not because she did not respect or love her mother, but because she was her mother.
— Anna Karenina If you knew how painful it is for me, and what I would have given to be able to love you freely and boldly!
— The Red and the Black And he abandoned himself joyously to his love for Mathilde.
— In Search of Lost Time This tea had indeed seemed to Swann, just as it seemed to her, something precious, and love has such a need to find some justification for itself, some guarantee of duration, in pleasures which without it would have no existence and must cease with its passing, that when he left her at seven o’clock to go and dress for the evening, all the way home in his brougham, unable to repress the happiness with which the afternoon’s adventure had filled him, he kept repeating to himself: “How nice it would be to have a little woman like that in whose house one could always be certain of finding, what one never can be certain of finding, a really good cup of tea.”
— The Man Without Qualities It was not long until she had become the impersonal centre of energy, the subterranean dynamo that supplied his illumination, and he wrote her a last letter in which he explained to her that the grand ideal of living for love’s sake actually had nothing at all to do with possession and the desire for it, which originate in the sphere of thriftiness, appropriation and gluttony.
money
— The Brothers Karamazov It may be possible, however, to find a much more obvious explanation for the accused’s excessively emotional attitude toward that money than a predisposition to insanity.
— The Brothers Karamazov If some villager had had the inspiration to ask him for money, he would have pulled out his bundle of bills immediately and proceeded to hand them out right and left without restraint.
— Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ‘Because Mary Jane’ll be in mourning from this out; and first you know the nigger that does up the rooms will get an order to box these duds up and put ‘em away; and do you reckon a nigger can run across money and not borrow some of it?’
— Middlemarch He must tell that he had not known of Raffle’s existence when he first mentioned his pressing need of money to Bulstrode, and that he took the money innocently as a result of that communication, not knowing that a new motive for the loan might have arisen on his being called into this man.
— The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman ——What—without leave—without money——without governor? cried my father in amazement.
— Middlemarch But her feeling towards the vulgar rich was a sort of religious hatred: they had probably made all their money out of high retail prices, and Mrs. Cadwallader detested high prices for everything that was not paid in kind at the Rectory: such people were no part of God’s design in making the world; and their accent was an affliction to the ears.
— The Golden Notebook Yet money, money, money all the time.
— Middlemarch In fact, the Hospital had become an object of intense interest to Bulstrode, and he would willingly have continued to spare a large yearly sum that he might rule it dictatorially without any Board; but he had another favorite object which also required money for its accomplishment: he wished to buy some land in the neighborhood of Middlemarch, and therefore he wished to get considerable contributions towards maintaining the Hospital.
— Journey to the End of the Night I didn’t have enough money to go to America.
— The Brothers Karamazov And he started his search for money, on a wild hunch, in the most improbable place imaginable.
— Berlin Alexanderplatz We spend our money on all kinds of shoddy, useless things.
— History Then he asked Ida if she could give him a little money, at least for tobacco, since he didn’t have a lira.
— The Brothers Karamazov Of course, his assurance was quite unfounded and irresponsible, but it was because of this thoughtlessness and irresponsibility that he felt sure his father would pay him the money and then he would be able to refund the sum to Miss Verkhovtsev by mailing the three thousand rubles to her relatives.
— The Brothers Karamazov But then we took her money and spent it, so she couldn’t go back to Petersburg.
— The Brothers Karamazov They had pots of money.
— The Brothers Karamazov We already know what happened then: she quickly convinced him to accompany her to Samsonov’s house, where she was supposed to help the old man “count his money.”
— Middlemarch Take care—experto crede—take care not to get hampered about money matters.
— Anna Karenina She can send me the money through Yegorov.
— Great Expectations ‘I don’t mean to imply that he won’t,’ said I, ‘but it might make you hold your tongue about us and our money, I should think.’
— Pedro Páramo It’s money we need, to buy food, even if only a few tortillas and chilis.
— The Sound of the Mountain Shingo suspected she had come for money, but such did not seem to be the case.
— The Stranger He had shown off his money.
— Middlemarch There was a Lydgate at John’s who spent no end of money.
— Lolita My small income added to her even smaller one impressed her as a brilliant fortune; not because the resulting sum now sufficed for most middle-class needs, but because even my money shone in her eyes with the magic of my manliness, and she saw our joint account as one of those southern boulevards at midday that have solid shade on one side and smooth sunshine on the other, all the way to the end of a prospect, where pink mountains loom.
— The Golden Notebook Of course when he examines my accounts he’s finding out how much I spend on liquor, but it’s the money as well.
— Memoirs of Hadrian The synagogues of the great Syrian cities proved undecided or lukewarm, the most ardent among them contenting themselves with sending money in secret to the Zealots; the Jewish population of Alexandria, though naturally so turbulent, remained calm; the abscess in Jewish affairs remained local, confined within the arid region which extends from Jordan to the sea; this ailing finger could safely be cauterized, or amputated.
— The Brothers Karamazov I told Katerina that I had gone to the town and sent the money and that I’d give her the post office receipt later because I hadn’t brought it with me, and of course I’ve never given it to her to this day.
— Great Expectations ‘With some money down,’ I replied, for an uneasy remembrance shot across me of that symmetrical bundle of papers at home; ‘with some money down, and perhaps some anticipation of my expectations.’
— Anna Karenina Alexei had told his brother then that this money would suffice him until he married, which most likely would never happen.
— The Man Without Qualities On the other hand, although the man of today possesses in money, as Arnheim realised, the surest modern method of managing all relationships, yet in spite of the fact that this method can be as hard and accurate as a guillotine, it can also be as touchily sensitive as a sufferer from rheumatism—one need only think of the aching and limping of the money-market at the slightest cause—and is most delicately bound up with everything over which it rules.
— The Brothers Karamazov Did you give him the money?
— Middlemarch “If you mean to hinder everybody from having money but saints and evangelists, you must give up some profitable partnerships, that’s all I can say,” Mr. Vincy burst out very bluntly.
— A Sentimental Education Everybody was complaining about not earning enough money when in came a man of medium height wearing a coat fastened by a single button; he had bright eyes and a rather wild look.
death
— Things Fall Apart “He tapped three of my best palm trees to death,” said his father, Ukegbu.
— Pedro Páramo His father’s death came to his mind.
— History In Russia, death of Lenin.
— History At a meeting of the Reichstag in Berlin, Hitler (who has already assumed personal command of the army) receives official confirmation of absolute power, with the right to decide the life and death of every German citizen.
— The Brothers Karamazov If it had been only that the expected miracles had not happened immediately after the elder’s death, that would have been all right—let there be no miraculous manifestations at all—but what was the point of inflicting that indignity upon him?
— Middlemarch Notwithstanding her jealousy of the Vincys and of Mary Garth, there remained as the nethermost sediment in her mental shallows a persuasion that her brother Peter Featherstone could never leave his chief property away from his blood relations:—else, why had the Almighty carried off his two wives both childless, after he had gained so much by manganese and things, turning up when nobody expected it?—and why was there a Lowick parish church, and the Waules and Powderells all sitting in the same pew for generations, and the Featherstone pew next to them, if, the Sunday after her brother Peter’s death, everybody was to know that the property was gone out of the family?
— The Golden Notebook 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.
— Ficciones Of those nine, four might initiate a third drawing to determine the name of the executioner, two might replace the unlucky draw with a lucky one (the discovery of a treasure, say), another might decide that the death should be exacerbated (death with dishonor, that is, or with the refinement of torture), others might simply refuse to carry out the sentence….That is the scheme of the Lottery, put symbolically.
— The Brothers Karamazov Men are always saved, even if only after the death of the one who saves them.
— Essays We consider death, poverty, and pain our principal adversaries.
— Memoirs of Hadrian The cult of Mithra, less widespread then than it has become since our expedition in Parthia, won me over temporarily by the rigours of its stark asceticism, which drew taut the bowstring of the will, and by its obsession with death, blood, and iron, which elevated the routine harshness of our military lives to the level of a symbolic universal struggle.
— Dead Souls How often, feeling myself despondent and near death, have I sought refuge with you, the road, and how generously you have rescued and saved me on each occasion!
— The Red and the Black It isn’t death, nor the dungeon, nor the damp air; it’s Mme. de Rênal’s absence that is getting me down.
— Anna Karenina ‘And you know, there’s less charm in life when you think about death — but it’s more peaceful.’
— The Man Without Qualities Then he read out the death-sentence to him, exactly as though the nonsense that Moosbrugger had been talking all through the trial, to the delight of all present, had now for once to be accorded a serious answer.
— Essays Their number is so infinite that in truth I should make a better bargain to count up those who have feared death.
— To the Lighthouse There was the compact; to resist tyranny to the death.
— Anna Karenina It’s like keeping a man condemned to death for months with a noose around his neck, promising him maybe death, maybe mercy.
— Children of Gebelawi You caused the death of the great man.
— Journey to the End of the Night Death after all is only a matter of a few hours, a few minutes, but a pension is like poverty, it lasts a whole lifetime.
— Pedro Páramo “But you knew he was responsible for your father’s death, didn’t you?”
— The Man Without Qualities Admittedly they hit each other over the head and spat at each other, but this they did only because of higher cultural considerations, just as it also happens that, for instance, a man who would not hurt a fly, if he were alone and eye to eye with it, when he is seated under the image of the Crucified One in a court of law will condemn another man to death.
— Berlin Alexanderplatz The brown beard yelled: ‘Put him to death, when did I say put him to death?
— Memoirs of Hadrian No matter: in death’s agony itself, and mingled with the bitterness of the last potions, I shall try still to taste on my lips its fresh simplicity.
— Absalom, Absalom! Because you will see the letter, not the first one he ever wrote to her but at least the first, the only one she ever showed, as your grandmother knew then: and, so we believe, now that she is dead, the only one which she kept unless of course Miss Rosa or Clytie destroyed the others after she herself died: and this one here preserved not because Judith put it away to keep but because she brought it herself and gave it to your grandmother after Bon’s death, possibly on the same day when she destroyed the others which he had written her (provided of course it was she herself who destroyed them) which would have been when she found in Bon’s coat the picture of the octoroon mistress and the little boy.
— The Golden Notebook She nodded, and I broke in across the game and said: ‘No, not of my death.
— Anna Karenina ‘He’ll be the death of her,’ Betsy said in a meaningful whisper.
— History In fact, some time earlier, in absolute and universal secrecy, he had charged Remo, in the event of his death, to inform Signora Ida that the mattress already left her contained a surprise for her.
— Memoirs of Hadrian But at certain times of life, for example in periods of ritual fasting or in the course of religious initiations, I have learned the advantage for the mind (and also the dangers) of different forms of abstinence, or even voluntary starvation, those states approaching giddiness where the body, partly lightened of ballast, enters into a world for which it is not made, and which affords it a foretaste of the cold and emptiness of death.
— The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman My father lay stretched across the bed as still as if the hand of death had pushed him down, for a full hour and a half, before he began to play upon the floor with the toe of that foot which hung over the bed-side; my uncle Toby’s heart was a pound lighter for it.
— To the Lighthouse ‘About life, about death; about Mrs Ramsay’ — no, she thought, one could say nothing to nobody.
— The Golden Notebook I keep seeing, before my eyes, pictures of what we are talking about—scenes of death, torture, cross-examination and so on; and the words we are using have nothing to do with what I am seeing.
— The Red and the Black “My death will make her even more contemptuous of me!” he cried.