Jane Austen Quotes

In a letter from Bath to her sister, Cassandra, one senses her frustration at her sheltered existence, Tuesday, 12 May 1801. Another stupid party . . . with six people to look on, and talk nonsense to each other.

Jane Austen

• Existence
• Frustration
• Senses
• Cassandra

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• If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.

  

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• Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of the family.

  

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• Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.

  

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• Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.

  

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• There is a problem in Washington, and the problem is bigger than a continuing resolution. It is bigger than Obamacare. It is even bigger than the budget. The most fundamental problem and the frustration is that the men and women in Washington aren't listening.

  

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• In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence.

  

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• To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.

  

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• You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.

  

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  • Done
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• I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

  

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• To the socialist no nation is free whose national existence is based upon the enslavement of another people, for to him colonial peoples, too, are peoples, and, as such, parts of the national state.

  

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• From wonder into wonder existence opens.

  

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• Since the day I was born, wrestling has sustained me and my family. It's the way my father fed me; it's the way I feed my kids. More importantly, wrestling is my greatest release. It's been such a blessing for me. I can step into the ring and let it all go - all my anger, all my frustration, all my pain.

  

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• I've led a very isolated existence since I was 6 years old. It's kind of been me and my mind.

  

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• Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

  

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• All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.

  

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• Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.

  

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• I would like to be able to gently drift in and out of existence when I wanted to.

  

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• The fragile art of existenceIs kept alive by sheer persistenceThe fragile art of existence.No time for self-pityNo time for dwelling on what should have beenBut is yet to be.

  

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• People listen to me, and they hear about a government they want, a government... that will cut spending, cut taxes, that will focus on private-sector job creation.

  

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• I've been to those places where it's 'poor, pitiful me.'

  

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• In a letter from Bath to her sister, Cassandra, one senses her frustration at her sheltered existence, Tuesday, 12 May 1801. Another stupid party . . . with six people to look on, and talk nonsense to each other.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Existence
  • Frustration
  • Senses