And this malady which Swann’s love had become had so proliferated, was so closely interwoven with all his habits, with all his actions, with his thoughts, his health, his sleep, his life, even with what he hoped for after his death, was so utterly inseparable from him, that it would have been impossible to eradicate it without almost entirely destroying him; as surgeons say, his love was no longer operable.
love
money
death
love
— In Search of Lost Time
— The Man Without Qualities If there are civilians who are belligerent by nature, why then should there not be officers who love the arts of peace?
— The Red and the Black His was a love based on nothing more than Mathilde’s rare beauty, or rather, on her queenly manner and marvelous dress.
— Sons and Lovers Home was home, and they loved it with a passion of love, whatever the suffering had been.
— Great Expectations There appeared upon the scene—say at the races, or the public balls, or anywhere else you like—a certain man, who made love to Miss Havisham.
— Anna Karenina But Dolly was struck by that temporary beauty which women have in moments of love and which she now found in Anna’s face.
— The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman What I am going to say to thee, is upon the nature of women, and of love-making to them; and perhaps it is as well for thee—tho’ not so well for me—that thou hast occasion for a letter of instructions upon that head, and that I am able to write it to thee.
— Journey to the End of the Night At such moments everything adds to your loathsome distress, forcing you in your weakened state to see things, people, and the future as they are, that is, as skeletons, as nothings, which you will nevertheless have to love, cherish, and defend as if they existed.
— Children of Gebelawi The very air seemed to him to be drunk with love, and love seemed to mean disaster, but he said to himself: ‘His face was pure and gentle.
— Lolita ‘Good by-aye!’ she chanted, my American sweet immortal dead love; for she is dead and immortal if you are reading this.
— In Search of Lost Time Ah, in those earliest days of love how naturally the kisses spring into life!
— The Brothers Karamazov I’ve come to love it so much, in fact, that it’s really quite disgusting.
— The Golden Notebook She was using the word ‘love’ already, and with a naivety quite foreign to her normal way of analysing relationships.
— Metamorphoses And Jove replied: ‘The child is yours and mine,
Our common care and love.
— Great Expectations Not a man of them, sir, would be bold enough to try it on, for love or money.
— A Sentimental Education Even allowing that she was pretty—which she wasn’t—how could she possibly have interested him even for one minute when he was in love with somebody else?
— Anna Karenina This body deprived of life was their love, the first period of their love.
— The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman At present, I hope I shall be sufficiently understood, in telling the reader, my uncle Toby fell in love:
—Not that the phrase is at all to my liking: for to say a man is fallen in love,—or that he is deeply in love,—or up to the ears in love,—and sometimes even over head and ears in it,—carries an idiomatical kind of implication, that love is a thing below a man:—this is recurring again to Plato’s opinion, which, with all his divinityship,—I hold to be damnable and heretical;—and so much for that.
— Anna Karenina But when, after a year in the country, Levin came back to Moscow at the beginning of that winter and saw the Shcherbatsky’s, he realized which of the three he had really been destined to fall in love with.
— Anna Karenina ‘Then we should find some artificial inoculation against love, as with smallpox.’
— The Brothers Karamazov 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.
— In Search of Lost Time And invariably the charm of all the fancies which the thought of cathedrals used to inspire in me, the charm of the hills and valleys of the Ile-de-France and of the plains of Normandy, would be reflected in the picture I had formed in my mind’s eye of Mlle Swann; nothing more remained but to know and to love her.
— The Brothers Karamazov Oh, we shall allow them to sin too, for, weak and defenseless as they are, they will love us like children if we allow them to sin.
— The Brothers Karamazov Love man in his sin too, for such love resembles God’s love, the highest possible form of love on earth.
— Anna Karenina It seemed to her that if he knew it, he would stop loving her sooner; and she feared nothing so much now, though she had no reason for it, as losing his love.
— The Man Without Qualities The unexpected result was that Diotima’s soul, temporarily unsupervised by the higher faculties, behaved like a schoolboy set free from school who careers around until the moment when he is overwhelmed by the mournfulness of his senseless liberty; and as a result of this remarkable circumstance there for a short time entered into her relations with her husband, and in spite of increasing alienation, something that strangely resembled, if not love’s late springtide, at least then a blend of all the seasons of love.
— 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.”
— The Brothers Karamazov I love you as much as Alyosha, you know.
— The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Your greatness of mind in this action, which I admire, with that generous contempt of money which you shew me in the whole transaction, is really noble;—and what renders it more so, is the principle of it;—the workings of a parent’s love upon the truth and conviction of this very hypothesis, namely, That was your son called JUDAS,—the sordid and treacherous idea, so inseparable from the name, would have accompanied him thro’ life like his shadow, and, in the end, made a miser and a rascal of him, in spight, Sir, of your example.
— Anna Karenina Do you love me?
— Berlin Alexanderplatz Tell me how much do you love him?
— The Brothers Karamazov What have I done to deserve so much love?
— Anna Karenina I’m proud enough never to allow myself to love a man who does not love me.
money
— The Brothers Karamazov Although she was well aware that he was deceiving her (being fully convinced that now she would have to bear everything, including even his faithlessness), she nevertheless put three thousand rubles at his disposal, letting him understand quite clearly that she was offering him this money to betray her with.
— The Brothers Karamazov Is it because he’s stupider than I am and has managed to pour lots of money down the drain with nothing to show for it?
— A Sentimental Education The thought of Frédéric’s money made him angry.
— Middlemarch But just as he had tried opium, so his thought now began to turn upon gambling—not with appetite for its excitement, but with a sort of wistful inward gaze after that easy way of getting money, which implied no asking and brought no responsibility.
— A Sentimental Education In fact, of the four earlier IOU’s, only one had been paid, any money she might have received in the interim having gone towards other needs …
— The Brothers Karamazov And he only became engaged to me because of all the money I inherited.
— Anna Karenina But the Petersburg view of money matters had an especially soothing effect on Stepan Arkadyich.
— Journey to the End of the Night He never mentioned money to me, but in his secret heart he thought of it all the time.
— Middlemarch I am by no means sure that your son, in his recklessness and ignorance—I will use no severer word—has not tried to raise money by holding out his future prospects, or even that some one may not have been foolish enough to supply him on so vague a presumption: there is plenty of such lax money-lending as of other folly in the world.
— Anna Karenina I’ve certainly committed some follies, like everybody else, but money is the least thing, I’m not sorry about it.
— The Brothers Karamazov I took the money, planning to give it back to her later.
— The Red and the Black “I’ve saved up money!” he cried out suddenly.
— Middlemarch If he could bring her to feel with some solemnity that here was a slander which must be met and not run away from, and that the whole trouble had come out of his desperate want of money, it would be a moment for urging powerfully on her that they should be one in the resolve to do with as little money as possible, so that they might weather the bad time and keep themselves independent.
— History “It was one of their first tricks!” Davide went on, all the same, “and they, with this trick of money, have bought our whole life.
— The Brothers Karamazov It’s a whole story,” Alyosha said, as if he, too, were exclusively preoccupied with his failure to get Snegirev to accept the money, although Lise could see that he, too, was looking away and trying not to broach a certain subject.
— The Brothers Karamazov ‘I hear,’ I said to her, ‘that your papa is short four thousand five hundred rubles of government money.’
— Great Expectations My worldly affairs began to wear a gloomy appearance and I was pressed for money by more than one creditor.
— The Golden Notebook Well, the first time I saw him in his office I felt confused—I know you’re going to say it’s the power he has, all that money.
— A Sentimental Education And he launched into a bitter, mocking attack on this aged money-grubber with his wig, pointing out that such a relationship was degrading and she ought to break it off.
— History In the shelter, besides the usual families from those parts, some other people also happened in: casual passersby, or else some homeless characters: beggars, cheap prostitutes, and black marketeers (with whom Nino, always on the prowl for money, on those nights plotted certain minimal and mysterious deals).
— The Brothers Karamazov Unlike the first, the second wife came from an old and distinguished family and was the daughter of a general, although, as far as I know, she did not bring the Lieutenant Colonel any money either.
— The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman —His character was,——he loved a jest in his heart—and as he saw himself in the true point of ridicule, he would say, he could not be so angry with others for seeing him in a light, in which he so strongly saw himself: So that to his friends, who knew his foible was not the love of money, and who therefore made the less scruple in bantering the extravagance of his humour,—instead of giving the true cause,——he chose rather to join in the laugh against himself; and as he never carried one single ounce of flesh upon his own bones, being altogether as spare a figure as his beast,—he would sometimes insist upon it, that the horse was as good as the rider deserved;—that they were, centaur-like,—both of a piece.
— Berlin Alexanderplatz And don’t drool over my publications, they’re expensive, cost money, and stop soiling the covers and all.
— Zorba the Greek We’ll soon be rolling in money, and we can do all we said.
— Middlemarch He regretted that he had not at once made even an unreasonable money-sacrifice.
— Berlin Alexanderplatz Only he was a crook, and so the airman’s money went very straightforwardly to the crook, and the airman has no money left.
— Journey to the End of the Night What bothered me most about all this was the money box.
— Zorba the Greek They can’t see anything else, the bitches, but the hand that brings out the money and lets it flow away like a basket with a hole in it.
— The Brothers Karamazov It has been said that money was stolen, namely, three thousand rubles, but no one knows for a fact that the money actually existed.
— Middlemarch And what are we doing with our money?
— Anna Karenina But now the money in the bank had come to an end and he did not quite know where to get more.
— The Brothers Karamazov Indeed, had he kept quiet, if only about the money, and then killed his master and taken the money, no one in the world could ever have accused him of murdering for money, because no one but him had seen that money or knew there was such a sum of money in the house.
— The Man Without Qualities The rent was correspondingly low, but all the rest—getting the place into a state of good repair and bringing it into line with modern ideas of comfort—had cost an unexpectedly large amount of money.
death
— Journey to the End of the Night He had always been afraid of life, and now he attached his fear to something different, to death, to his blood pressure, just as for forty years he had attached it to the peril of not being able to finish paying for the house.
— Dead Souls But then the manifestation of death is just as terrifying in an important or in an insignificant person; he who just yesterday had been walking about, playing cards, signing papers, who had so often been seen in the company of officials with his bushy eyebrows and winking eye, was now stretched out on a table.
— The Decameron Whereupon the two brothers made all necessary arrangements, using his own money to see that he had an honourable funeral, and sending news of his death to the friars and asking them to come that evening to observe the customary vigil, and the following morning to take away the body.
— Children of Gebelawi Where were they taking them and what death had they prepared?
— Season of Migration to the North Cattle breeder was attacked by a bull on his farm and gored to death.
— Metamorphoses My vengeance is my guilt:
Death must be paid with death, crime piled on crime,
Bloodshed on bloodshed.
— Zorba the Greek I had an uncle once who found an old mule on the point of death.
— Middlemarch She has had a poor opinion of the physicians since my father’s death.
— Anna Karenina The terrible thing in this sort of grief is that, unlike anything else — a loss, a death — one cannot simply bear one’s cross.
— Metamorphoses On the green grass
He drooped his weary head, and those bright eyes
That loved their master’s beauty closed in death.
— To the Lighthouse Who then could blame the leader of that forlorn party which after all has climbed high enough to see the waste of the years and the perishing of stars, if before death stiffens his limbs beyond the power of movement he does a little consciously raise his numbed fingers to his brow, and square his shoulders, so that when the search party comes they will find him dead at his post, the fine figure of a soldier?
— The Red and the Black What am I saying! half a company, were it only fifty men, but ready to fight and devoted to the good cause, in life as in death.
— Zorba the Greek The two women were running to and fro in the death chamber, chanting their mirologues while they feverishly rummaged in every little corner.
— Lolita The scream grew more and more remote as I realized the melancholy fact that neither tomorrow, nor Friday, nor any other day or night, could I make myself put her to death.
— Moby-Dick; or, The Whale Yet habit—strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?—Gayer sallies, more merry mirth, better jokes, and brighter repartees, you never heard over your mahogany, than you will hear over the half-inch white cedar of the whale-boat, when thus hung in hangman’s nooses; and, like the six burghers of Calais before King Edward, the six men composing the crew pull into the jaws of death, with a halter around every neck, as you may say.
— Essays I dislike the fact that in such a saintly government as the Lacedaemonian should be found such a hypocritical ceremony as this: At the death of the kings all the confederates and neighbors, all the Helots, men, women, and all, would cut their foreheads as a token of mourning and say in their cries and lamentations that that one, whatever he may have been, was the best king they ever had; attributing to rank the praise that belonged to merit, and the praise that belonged to the highest merit to the latest and lowest rank.
— The Red and the Black For the first time death seemed horrible to him.
— Zorba the Greek From the death chamber uncle Anagnosti and Kondomanolio came bareheaded and crossed themselves.
— Middlemarch Death and other striking dispositions, such as feminine trustfulness, had come; and Bulstrode would have adopted Cromwell’s words—“Do you call these bare events? The Lord pity you!”
— To the Lighthouse He is petty, selfish, vain, egotistical; he is spoilt; he is a tyrant; he wears Mrs Ramsay to death; but he has what you (she addressed Mr Bankes) have not; a fiery unworldliness; he knows nothing about trifles; he loves dogs and his children.
— The Golden Notebook It seems to me that ever since I can remember anything the real thing that has been happening in the world was death and destruction.
— Zorba the Greek Sleep took possession of me, just as one day—nothing is more certain—death will do, and I slipped gently into darkness.
— Anna Karenina Delivering one’s brothers from the yoke is a goal worthy of both death and life.
— The Red and the Black “Amidst all these lofty thoughts about nonbeing, death, the infinite, etcetera, I see nothing genuine except a disgusting fear of ridicule.”
— Moby-Dick; or, The Whale No! no time to think about Death then.
— 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.
— Great Expectations I could ha’ got clear of these death-cold flats likewise—look at my leg: you won’t find much iron on it—if I hadn’t made discovery that he was here.
— Berlin Alexanderplatz Death spins his coat and sings: oh yes, oh yes.
— In Search of Lost Time A moment later she added, inarticulate with rage: “No, but, don’t you agree, the filthy creature…” unwittingly using, perhaps in obedience to the same obscure need to justify herself—like Françoise at Combray, when the chicken refused to die—the very words which the last convulsions of an inoffensive animal in its death throes wring from the peasant who is engaged in taking its life.
— The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman —Obadiah did the same thing, as soon as he had left the letter upon the table which brought the news of my brother’s death; so that before my father had well got over his surprize, and entered upon his harangue,—had Trim got upon his legs, to speak his sentiments upon the subject.
— The Decameron It did not take the form it had assumed in the East, where if anyone bled from the nose it was an obvious portent of certain death.
— To the Lighthouse ‘About life, about death; about Mrs Ramsay’ — no, she thought, one could say nothing to nobody.
— The Red and the Black M. de Croisnois’ death altered all of Julien’s plans for Mathilde’s future; he spent several days proving to her that she ought to accept M. de Luz’s hand.