BLACK LIVES MATTER.

i want to be great or nothing.

O, never Shall sun that morrow see! Your face, my thane, is as a book where men May read strange matters. To beguile the time, Look like the time. Bear welcome in your eye, Your hand, your tongue. Look like th’ innocent flower, But be the serpent under ‘t. He that’s coming Must be provide for: and you shall put This night’s great business into my dispatch, Which shall to all our nights and days to come Give solely sovereign sway and masterdom.

— there are few people whom i really love, and still fewer of whom i think well. the more i see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ MRS. REYNOLDS: This is my master - Mr. Darcy. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ MRS. GARDINER: A handsome face. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Lizzie, is it a true likeness of him? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ MRS. REYNOLDS: Does this young lady know Mr. Darcy? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ LIZZIE: Only a little. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ MRS. REYNOLDS: And do you not think ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ him a handsome man, Miss? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ LIZZIE: Yes, yes I daresay he is.

If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes have not changed, but one word from you will silence me forever. If, however, your feelings have changed, I will have to tell you: you have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on.

“As I must therefore conclude that you are not serious in your rejection of me, I shall choose to attribute it to your wish of increasing my suspense, according to the usual practice of elegant females.” “I thank you again and again for the honour you have done me in your proposals, but to accept them is absolutely impossible. My feelings in every respect forbid it. Can I speak plainer? Do not consider me as an elegant female, intending to plague you, but as a rational creature, speaking the truth from her heart.” To such perseverance in wilfull self-deception Elizabeth would make no reply, and immediately and in silence withdrew; determined, if he persisted in considering her respected refusals as flattering encouragement, to apply to her father, whose negative might be uttered in such a manner as to be decisive, and whose behaviour at least could not be mistaken for the affection and conquetry of an elegant female.

“This is about sex, this place, as well. That – it’s about her discovering sensuality. And also that she’s not just admiring Darcy’s wealth, but she’s admiring his culture, she’s admiring his appreciation of beauty. That he has a sensitive soul. And that she loves him for his sensitivity.”

“We are all fools in love.”

Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice (2005)

shakespeare & art

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ❝And yours,❞ he replied with a smile, ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀❝is wilfully to misunderstand them.❞

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun

I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

“With your good sense, to be honestly blind to the follies and nonsense of others! Affectation of candour is common enough; – one meets it every where. But to be candid without ostentation or design – to take the good of every body’s character and make it still better, and say nothing of the bad – belongs to you alone.“