My love listened to these new counsels; they persuaded it that the morrow would not be different from all the days that had gone before; that Gilberte’s feeling for me, too long established now to be capable of alteration, was indifference; that in my friendship with Gilberte, it was I alone who loved.
love
money
death
love
— In Search of Lost Time
— Children of Gebelawi Although I’m a carpenter like father, I love stories.
— The Brothers Karamazov Better Siberia than your love, Katya, for I love another woman, and I know that you got to know her only too well today, so I don’t expect you can ever forgive us.
— Journey to the End of the Night You don’t care if I love you or not?
— Journey to the End of the Night Love itself is misery and nothing else, misery lying out of our mouths, the bitch, and nothing else.
— Zorba the Greek “Love is stronger than death.”
— A Sentimental Education Frédéric gave his most solemn word that he’d never thought of Madame Arnoux, because he was too much in love with another woman.
— Middlemarch I suppose a woman is never in love with any one she has always known—ever since she can remember; as a man often is.
— The Brothers Karamazov Later I found out that he responded to my provocation because he, too, somehow felt jealous of me: he had rather resented my past friendship with his wife—his fiancée at the time—and now he feared that if she learned I had insulted him and he had not challenged me to a duel, she might come to despise him and then would not love him as before.
— The Red and the Black Nevertheless, since pride had inevitably to show itself in some way, she insisted on exposing herself boldly to all the risks love might make her run.
— Anna Karenina Whereas I can be busy with love, but not be late for a game in the evening.
— The Brothers Karamazov If I must love my fellow man, he had better hide himself, for no sooner do I see his face than there’s an end to my love for him.
— The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman I love to lie hard and alone, and even without my wife—This last word may stagger the faith of the world—but remember, “La Vraisemblance (as Baylet says in the affair of Liceti) n’est pas toujours du Cotè de la Verité.”
— Anna Karenina But I, and all the family, all those who love her, beseech you.
— Metamorphoses Exhausted then and dying, these few words
She forced herself to murmur: “By our vows
Of wedlock, by the gods of home and heaven,
By my deserts, if I have well deserved,
By my death’s cause, my own still-living love,
I beg you, I implore you, not to take
Zephyr to be your wife in place of me.”
— Absalom, Absalom! And maybe your old man was right this time and they did think maybe the war would settle it and they would not have to themselves, or at least maybe Henry hoped it would because maybe your old man was right here too and Bon didn’t care; that since both of the two people who could have given him a father had declined to do it, nothing mattered to him now, revenge or love or all, since he knew now that revenge could not compensate him nor love assuage.
— Season of Migration to the North Mustafa Sa’eed had drawn them with a clarity of vision and sympathy that approached love.
— The Brothers Karamazov They knew that the two women contending for his love would appear at the trial.
— Children of Gebelawi Their love for Rifaa that had brought them crowding round gave them the courage to answer back to Batikha’s warnings.
— The Brothers Karamazov And she was wrong about his feelings: he did love his mother and disliked only what he called in his schoolboy lingo “that sickening slobbery stuff.”
— Anna Karenina I want love and there is none.
— The Brothers Karamazov But I love Alyosha with my whole soul, do you hear me?
— Père Goriot “You really love me?” she said.
— The Red and the Black To find like sentiments, you have to go back to the age of heroes; it was love affairs of this kind that set hearts to beating in the reign of Charles IX and of Henry III.
— Sons and Lovers —But—you love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket.
— Memoirs of Hadrian That adventure, wherein love brings a soul back to earth and temporarily grants it a body, moved each one of us, though at different depths.
— The Man Without Qualities Perhaps fodder and speed were the only great horse-passions left in such a case as that of Pepi and Hans, for they were geldings and did not know love as tangible desire, but only as a filmy haze that at times veiled their vision of the world with thin, lucent clouds.
— The Red and the Black Don’t you love me?
— Middlemarch “If, as I have, you also doe,
Vertue attired in woman see,
And dare love that, and say so too,
And forget the He and She;
And if this love, though placed so,
From prophane men you hide,
Which will no faith on this bestow,
Or, if they doe, deride:
Then you have done a braver thing
Than all the Worthies did,
And a braver thence will spring,
Which is, to keep that hid.”
— To the Lighthouse For that reason, knowing what was before them — love and ambition and being wretched alone in dreary places — she had often the feeling, Why must they grow up and lose it all?
— Children of Gebelawi Love and justice and respect must rule between you.
— Père Goriot “A pureblooded animal, a thoroughbred, a classic beauty”: these were the latest terms of fashionable praise, replacing the “angels of Heaven,” the “Ossian-like” figures, and the whole ancient mythology of love the dandies were tossing aside.
— The Brothers Karamazov Was it to talk about my love for Katerina, about the old man and Dmitry?
money
— The Brothers Karamazov Well, I know for a fact that at that time he had no money whatsoever.
— 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.
— Middlemarch Fred liked play, especially billiards, as he liked hunting or riding a steeplechase; and he only liked it the better because he wanted money and hoped to win.
— Zorba the Greek I’ve spent some of your money, but it was such a terrible insult, I had to save our honor, yours as well as mine, I had to bring that little brat to her knees before us, I really had to.
— Berlin Alexanderplatz Or if jealousy, then jealousy beefed up by money, but with money the main element.
— The Brothers Karamazov Was he hoping that Dmitry Karamazov would make enough noise, wake up witnesses, and bring them to the scene of the murder, and then he, Smerdyakov, would get up and follow them (well, he would have to get up then, that couldn’t be helped!), go and kill his master for a second time, and steal the money that had already been stolen!
— Berlin Alexanderplatz She came with money and a change of clothes, he whispered something to her, then he had to leave again, oh no.
— The Golden Notebook She has heard that he has abandoned his wife without money, with the two children.
— The Brothers Karamazov So I’ve been wondering what it was that could have infuriated him enough to make him trample that money underfoot, for, believe me, he had no idea himself until the very last second that he’d throw it down and stamp on it.
— Absalom, Absalom! Then your grandfather told him he must go away, disappear, giving him money to go on: ‘Whatever you are, once you are among strangers, people who dont know you, you can be whatever you will.
— Berlin Alexanderplatz Oh, you should have seen Franz Biberkopf as he set out on the hunt for money.
— Middlemarch He loved money, but he also loved to spend it in gratifying his peculiar tastes, and perhaps he loved it best of all as a means of making others feel his power more or less uncomfortably.
— The Man Without Qualities People liked listening to him because it was so nice that a man who had so many ideas also had money.
— The Golden Notebook Richard who had a talent for nothing but making money, as yet undiscovered, was kept by Molly for two years, while he prepared himself to be a writer.
— The Brothers Karamazov And once again he squandered the money there that he had stolen from his father after he killed him.
— Anna Karenina And on the other…’ (he faltered) ‘hand, its a way for the district coterie to make a little money.
— Middlemarch “Aw! good for the big folks to make money out on,” said old Timothy Cooper, who had stayed behind turning his hay while the others had been gone on their spree;—“I’n seen lots o’ things turn up sin’ I war a young un—the war an’ the peace, and the canells, an’ the oald King George, an’ the Regen’, and the new King George, an’ the new un as has got a new ne-ame—an’ it’s been all aloike to the poor mon.
— The Golden Notebook But she said, cheerfully, replying to the surface of Molly’s words: ‘Yes, I think I’ll be short of money very soon, and I’ll have to get a job.’
— The Man Without Qualities He had always been afraid that the feelings he aroused in women might not be for himself, but for his money; and for this reason he lived only with women to whom he, for his part, gave not feelings but money.
— Middlemarch Mary, standing by the fire, saw its red light falling on the old man, propped up on his pillows and bed-rest, with his bony hand holding out the key, and the money lying on the quilt before him.
— The Man Without Qualities He was hungry again; the prison fare was not enough for a huge man like him, and he had no money to eke it out.
— The Brothers Karamazov Did you give him the money?
— The Golden Notebook She’s much too good for him, he says, weeping big tears, but not too big, because after all she is stuck with two kids in Ceylon and no money, so he’s safe.
— Memoirs of Hadrian The trench-diggers of the legion were aided in their task by native crews; the building of the wall was for many of these mountain dwellers, so newly subdued, the first irrefutable proof of the protective power of Rome; their pay was the first Roman money to pass through their hands.
— The Man Without Qualities Only logic makes some difficulties by asserting that the possession of money may perhaps confer certain qualities, but can never itself be a human quality.
— Moby-Dick; or, The Whale If money’s to be the measurer, man, and the accountants have computed their great counting-house the globe, by girdling it with guineas, one to every three parts of an inch; then, let me tell thee, that my vengeance will fetch a great premium here!
— The Brothers Karamazov That money was mine.
— A Sentimental Education Moreover, he was scared of his powers of invective, so much so that in order to placate him, he’d published his portrait in L’Art industriel together with an article praising him to the skies; and being more susceptible to fame than money, at about eight o’clock in came Pellerin, quite out of breath.
— Middlemarch I will not touch your key or your money, sir.
— The Red and the Black In the first few days, the sums spent in this manner filled him with respect, for he had all of the provincial’s veneration for money.
— The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman As Francis the first of France was one winterly night warming himself over the embers of a wood fire, and talking with his first minister of sundry things for the good of the state—it would not be amiss, said the king, stirring up the embers with his cane, if this good understanding betwixt ourselves and Switzerland was a little strengthened—There is no end, Sire, replied the minister, in giving money to these people—they would swallow up the treasury of France—Poo! poo! answered the king——there are more ways, Mons. le Premier, of bribing states, besides that of giving money——I’ll pay Switzerland the honour of standing godfather for my next child—Your majesty, said the minister, in so doing, would have all the grammarians in Europe upon your back;—Switzerland, as a republick, being a female, can in no construction be godfather—She may be godmother, replied Francis, hastily—so announce my intentions by a courier to morrow morning.
— Middlemarch What I have to thank you for is that you kept the money till now, when I can refuse it.
— Absalom, Absalom! Or maybe she was so busy grooming him that she never thought of the money now, who probably never had had much time to remember it or count it or wonder how much there was in the intervals of the hating and the being mad, and so all to check him up about the money would be the lawyer and he (Bon) probably learned that the first thing: that he could go to his mother and hold the lawyer’s feet to the fire anytime, like the millionaire horse has only to come in one time with a little extra sweat on him, and tomorrow he will have a new jock.
death
— Berlin Alexanderplatz Death spins his coat, sings: oh yes, oh yes.
— Anna Karenina They’d starve to death.
— Journey to the End of the Night Everyone has his own life … his role … his death …
— Journey to the End of the Night Since all thought leads to death, a day would come when he’d see nothing else in his movie show.
— Père Goriot Once the city coroner’s verified the cause of death, he gets sewn into a shroud, and then he’ll be buried.
— History Death, however, proved to have been caused by an initial stab with the scissors, which had cut the woman’s carotid artery; but the murderer had continued striking the unconscious body with every object he could get his hands on.
— Berlin Alexanderplatz He was close to death once, now he’s picked himself up!
— The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Now my father being entirely a water-drinker,—was a long time gravelled almost to death, in turning this as much to his advantage, as he did every other thing, which the ancients did or said; and it was not till the seventh year of his marriage, after a thousand fruitless experiments and devices, that he hit upon an expedient which answered the purpose;——and that was when any difficult and momentous point was to be settled in the family, which required great sobriety, and great spirit too, in its determination,——he fixed and set apart the first Sunday night in the month, and the Saturday night which immediately preceded it, to argue it over, in bed with my mother: By which contrivance, if you consider, Sir, with yourself, * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *.
— Berlin Alexanderplatz Slowly, slowly Death sings, wicked Babylon listens to him, the powers of storm listen to him.
— Journey to the End of the Night The truth is an endless death agony.
— The Brothers Karamazov They flayed him alive and he died a martyr’s death, praising and glorifying Christ.
— Essays Not one was seen so beaten down with wounds as not to try even in his last gasp to avenge himself, and with the weapons of despair to assuage his death in the death of some enemy.
— The Red and the Black Still talking with Altamira, Julien was drawing near the spot where she stood; she was watching him intently, studying his features in search of those high virtues that make a man worthy of the honor of being condemned to death.
— Great Expectations ‘What’s death?’
— Gypsy Ballads And when his four first-cousins
Came home to Benameji,
Voices of death were silent
Around the Guadalquivir.
— The Golden Notebook He drank himself to death, years later.
— Children of Gebelawi But you know the way things should be, we all know; so what need is there to risk death?
— The Red and the Black The excessiveness of my contrition and of my despair would be taken by Valenod and all the patricians of the region for an ignoble fear of death; they are so proud, those faint heroes whose wealth sets them above temptation!
— Père Goriot Bianchon, faintly tipsy, had forgotten to ask Mademoiselle Michonneau about Death-Dodger.
— Children of Gebelawi ‘Death to any man who helps him or allows him to come back!’
— The Man Without Qualities When you came to think of it, taking it bit by bit, it was a pretty muddled and dreary thing, after all, but still, there it was, his own track ran right across it, and looking back you could see it quite clearly, from birth on to death.
— Anna Karenina He could not think of it because, when he imagined what was to be, he could not rid himself of the thought that death would resolve at a stroke all the difficulty of his situation.
— Journey to the End of the Night Naturally he too was scared to death.
— Père Goriot Oh, for me it’s death.
— Essays One man complains of its ease:
Death, would that you scorned to take the coward’s life,
And came only to valor!
— Children of Gebelawi Their eyes threatened vengeance and death.
— Père Goriot But you, you’ve saved me from shame, and from death; I was overwhelmed with misery.
— The Red and the Black Death was certain, yet it would have been bad form to defend oneself and kill a Jacobin or two.
— History In Nuremberg, with twelve death sentences, the trial of the Nazi leaders ends.
— The Sound of the Mountain It seemed a little strange afterwards to have concluded that, by virtue of the fact that he had had a young woman with him, it had been such a death.
— Memoirs of Hadrian The idea that a man whom he had come to love and to venerate as a father suffered enough to seek out death was to him insupportable; it seemed to him that he must have failed in his obligations as a good son.
— Journey to the End of the Night She accepted the accident of my death, and not content to acquiesce, she wondered if I was as resigned to it as she was.
— The Red and the Black My only rival in her heart was the fear of her children’s death; but that was a natural and reasonable affection, attractive even to me who suffered from it.