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Karol Dickens: 153 Cytaty 4 Polubienia

Karol Dickens słynne cytaty

„Wesołych świąt. Też mi pomysł! Jakie masz prawo być wesołym? Jakie masz do tego podstawy? Taki biedak!”

Karol Dickens książka Opowieść wigilijna

Opowieść wigilijna (1843)

„Sam nie obchodzę świąt Bożego Narodzenia i nie stać mnie na to, abym umilał życie próżniakom.”

Karol Dickens książka Opowieść wigilijna

Opowieść wigilijna (1843)

„Ważne jest nie to, co możemy zrobić, lecz to, co zrobić musimy.”

Karol Dickens

„Powiem ci – ciągnęła tym samym pośpiesznym, namiętnym szeptem – co to jest prawdziwa miłość. To ślepe oddanie, poniżenie bez granic, całkowite poddanie się, zaufanie i wiara na przekór samej sobie i całemu światu, ofiarowanie własnego serca i duszy oprawcy! Tak kochałam!”

Karol Dickens książka Wielkie nadzieje

‘I’ll tell you’, said she, in the same hurried passionate whisper, ‘what real love is. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your heart and soul to the smiter – as I did’. (ang.)
Wielkie nadzieje (1861)

„Miłosierdzie zaczynamy od nas samych, sprawiedliwość – od innych.”

Karol Dickens

„Jeżeli chcesz zrobić coś dobrego, dlaczego nie zrobić tego dla samego dobra, a odrzucić precz swoje lubienia i przyjemności?”

Karol Dickens

Nasz wspólny przyjaciel
Źródło: tom I, rozdz. X, s. 386.

Karol Dickens Cytaty o kochaniu się

„Zobaczyć osobę, którą się kocha, choćby na krótko, jest już szczęściem.”

Karol Dickens książka Wielkie nadzieje

Wielkie nadzieje (1861)

„Kiedy mi mówisz, że mnie kochasz, to rozumiem ten wyraz, ale nic więcej, wyraz ten nie budzi nic w mym sercu, nic we mnie nań nie odpowiada.”

Karol Dickens książka Wielkie nadzieje

Wielkie nadzieje (1861)

„(…) Rób co chcesz, ale ja muszę mieć pieniądze dzisiaj.
– Ha, trudno – westchnął Żyd – jeżeli musisz, to przyślę ci trochę przez Smyka.
– Na to się nie zgadzam, mój kochany – zaoponował Sikes. – Przebiegły Smyk jest zbyt przebiegły, żeby można mu było zaufać.”

Karol Dickens książka Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist (Przygody Oliwera Twista; 1839)

Karol Dickens cytaty

„Aby być niepospolicie uczonym, trzeba zacząć od pospolitego uczenia się.”

Karol Dickens

„Cokolwiek dzieje się dla dobra i rozwoju człowieka pracy, musi być dokonane przez niego samego i przez niego podtrzymywane, i nie ma tu miejsca na łaskawe zniżanie się czy choćby cień patronowania.”

Karol Dickens

„Niespodziewana radość tak samo człowieka ogłusza, jak nagłe nieszczęście.”

Karol Dickens

O nieszczęściu , Radość

„Duch ludzki, podobnie jak ciało, często nadmiernie tyje i niedomaga jedynie z racji zbyt wielkich wygód i, podobnie jak ciało, bywa skutecznie leczony środkami, które są bardzo przykre i niesmaczne.”

Karol Dickens

„Ród gałganów ma, jak wiadomo, wielkie wpływy polityczne.”

Karol Dickens

„W małym świecie dziecięcym, bez względu na to, kto dziecko wychowuje, istnieje największa wrażliwość na niesprawiedliwość. Niesprawiedliwość może być nawet niewielka, ale przecież świat dziecka jest niewielki i jego koń na biegunach nie przewyższa rozmiarami dużego psa myśliwskiego.”

Karol Dickens książka Wielkie nadzieje

Wielkie nadzieje (1861)

O dzieciach , O świecie , Koń

„Jak się pan ma? – rzekł Muzzle do Sama prowadząc go do kuchni. – Ha! Nie zaszła żadna wielka zmiana od czasu, jak widziałem pana sterczącego za krzesłem burmistrza w sali.
– Przepraszam, że nie zwróciłem wtedy na pana uwagi, ale jak pan to zapewne zauważył, nie byliśmy sobie przedstawieni. O! Mój pan bardzo pana polubił.
– To mi figura.
– Prawda?
– Jowialny!
– I znakomity mówca. Jak mu płyną myśli, co?
– Zdumiewająco! Płyną tak szparko i tłumnie, iż stukają się głowami i nie wiadomo nawet, o co idzie.
– To właśnie wielka zaleta stylu jego mowy…”

Karol Dickens książka Klub Pickwicka

Źródło: Klub Pickwicka (ang. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club), tłum. Włodzimierz Górski

O prawdzie , O myślach , O zmianach , O czasie

„Bogaty skąpiec jest bogatym nędzarzem.”

Karol Dickens

Źródło: Leksykon złotych myśli, wyboru dokonał Krzysztof Nowak, Warszawa 1998.

O myślach , O myśleniu

„Takie nowe dla niego, a takie stare dla mnie, takie dziwne dla niego, takie powszednie dla mnie. Takie smutne dla nas obojga…”

Karol Dickens książka Wielkie nadzieje

Wielkie nadzieje (1861)

„Bóg wie, że nie należy nigdy wstydzić się własnych łez. Są one jak deszcz obmywający pył, który zalega nasze stwardniałe serca.”

Karol Dickens książka Wielkie nadzieje

Wielkie nadzieje (1861)

O Bogu , Serce

„Są książki, których grzbiety i okładki stanowią najlepszą ich część.”

Karol Dickens

O książkach

„Godność, a niekiedy nawet i świętość są bardziej kwestią surduta i kamizelki, niż się to niektórym wydaje.”

Karol Dickens

„Ministerstwo Przelewania z Pustego w Próżne.”

Karol Dickens książka Mała Dorrit

Circumlocution Office. (ang.)
Źródło: Mała Dorrit, ks. 1, rozdz. 10 (1857), tłum. Wacława Komarnicka

„Cała historia uczy, że okrzyk, błędnie zwany religijnym, bywa często podnoszony przez ludzi bez wszelkiej religii, w życiu codziennym depczących elementarne zasady dobra i zła, że poczyna się z nietolerancji i prześladowania, jest bezrozumny, ogłupiający, tępy, niemiłosierny.”

Karol Dickens

O ludziach , O religii , O historii

„Człowiek zawsze powinien zwracać uwagę na to, jaki jest w stosunku do swoich najbliższych. Śmierć ukochanej osoby pobudza sumienie do robienia rachunku i jeżeli wypadnie on niekorzystnie, ogarniają nas dotkliwie dręczące wyrzuty. A żaden wyrzut nie jest tak gorzki, jak ten, który przychodzi za późno.”

Karol Dickens książka Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist (Przygody Oliwera Twista; 1839)

O śmierci

„Niedostatek wiedzy to rzecz niebezpieczna, lecz amatorska dobroczynność kryje w sobie stokroć groźniejsze niebezpieczeństwo.”

Karol Dickens

O wiedzę

„Ciągnąć długo, ciągnąć silnie, ciągnijmy wszyscy razem.”

Karol Dickens

„Jeżeli nie potrafisz dojść prostą drogą do tego, by nie być pospolitym, to krzywą drogą na pewno do tego nie dojdziesz.”

Karol Dickens

„Kłamstwo zawsze jest kłamstwem. Jakkolwiek się rodzi, tak czy inaczej, nie powinno się rodzić w ogóle.”

Karol Dickens książka Wielkie nadzieje

Wielkie nadzieje (1861)

O kłamstwie

„Miłość, aczkolwiek pomawia się ją o ślepotę, jest czujnym strażnikiem.”

Karol Dickens

Nasz wspólny przyjaciel
Źródło: tom I, rozdz. XI, s. 390.

O miłości

„Życie składa się z takiego łańcucha złączonych ze sobą rozstań.”

Karol Dickens książka Wielkie nadzieje

Wielkie nadzieje (1861)

O życiu

„Chodź tutaj. Możesz mnie pocałować, jeżeli chcesz.”

Karol Dickens książka Wielkie nadzieje

Wielkie nadzieje (1861)

„(…) proszę pomyśleć niekiedy, że na tym podłym świecie jest człowiek, który z radością odda swoje życie, aby zachować koło pani inne życie, o wiele droższe jej niż własne.”

Karol Dickens książka Opowieść o dwóch miastach

Opowieść o dwóch miastach (1859)

O życiu , O zachowaniu , Radość

„Była to najlepsza i najgorsza z epok, wiek rozumu i wiek szaleństwa, czas wiary i czas zwątpienia, okres światła i okres mroków, wiosna pięknych nadziei i zima rozpaczy. Wszystko było przed nami i nic nie mieliśmy przed sobą. Dążyliśmy prosto w stronę nieba i kroczyliśmy prosto w kierunku odwrotnym.”

Karol Dickens książka Opowieść o dwóch miastach

Opowieść o dwóch miastach (1859)

O wierze , O wiośnie , O zimie , O czasie

„Prawdziwym patriotą jest ten, który nie ze wszystkiego jest zadowolony w swej ojczyźnie, to człowiek, który pragnie i walczy o to, by w niej było lepiej.”

Karol Dickens

O ojczyźnie

„Szczęśliwy jest ten, kto mając 20 szylingów dochodu tygodniowo wydaje 19 i 1/2, nieszczęśliwym zaś ten, kto pobiera 20 szylingów, a wydatki jego wynoszą 20 i 1/2.”

Karol Dickens

„Nie ma większego oszusta niż ten, kto oszukuje sam siebie.”

Karol Dickens książka Wielkie nadzieje

Wielkie nadzieje (1861)

O oszukiwaniu

„Jak się pan ma? – rzekł Muzzle do Sama prowadząc go do kuchni.”

Karol Dickens książka Klub Pickwicka

Ha! Nie zaszła żadna wielka zmiana od czasu, jak widziałem pana sterczącego za krzesłem burmistrza w sali.
– Przepraszam, że nie zwróciłem wtedy na pana uwagi, ale jak pan to zapewne zauważył, nie byliśmy sobie przedstawieni. O! Mój pan bardzo pana polubił.
– To mi figura.
– Prawda?
– Jowialny!
– I znakomity mówca. Jak mu płyną myśli, co?
– Zdumiewająco! Płyną tak szparko i tłumnie, iż stukają się głowami i nie wiadomo nawet, o co idzie.
– To właśnie wielka zaleta stylu jego mowy…
Źródło: Klub Pickwicka (ang. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club), tłum. Włodzimierz Górski

Karol Dickens: Cytaty po angielsku

“It is strange with how little notice, good, bad, or indifferent, a man may live and die in London.”

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Charles Dickens książka Sketches by Boz

Characters, Ch. 1 : Thoughts About People
Sketches by Boz (1836-1837)
Kontekst: It is strange with how little notice, good, bad, or indifferent, a man may live and die in London. He awakens no sympathy in the breast of any single person; his existence is a matter of interest to no one save himself; he cannot be said to be forgotten when he dies, for no one remembered him when he was alive. There is a numerous class of people in this great metropolis who seem not to possess a single friend, and whom nobody appears to care for. Urged by imperative necessity in the first instance, they have resorted to London in search of employment, and the means of subsistence. It is hard, we know, to break the ties which bind us to our homes and friends, and harder still to efface the thousand recollections of happy days and old times, which have been slumbering in our bosoms for years, and only rush upon the mind, to bring before it associations connected with the friends we have left, the scenes we have beheld too probably for the last time, and the hopes we once cherished, but may entertain no more. These men, however, happily for themselves, have long forgotten such thoughts. Old country friends have died or emigrated; former correspondents have become lost, like themselves, in the crowd and turmoil of some busy city; and they have gradually settled down into mere passive creatures of habit and endurance.

“Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir!”

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Charles Dickens książka Hard Times

Bk. I, Ch. 1
Hard Times (1854)

“All the truth of my position came flashing on me; and its disappointments, dangers, disgraces, consequences of all kinds, rushed in in such a multitude that I was borne down by them and had to struggle for every breath I drew.”

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Charles Dickens książka Wielkie nadzieje

Źródło: Great Expectations (1860-1861), Ch. 39

“Never have a Mission, my dear child.”

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Charles Dickens książka Bleak House

Źródło: Bleak House (1852-1853), Ch. 30

“A person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs, to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking match.”

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Charles Dickens książka Mała Dorrit

Bk. I, Ch. 23
Little Dorrit (1855-1857)

“Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused — in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened — by the recurrence of Christmas.”

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Charles Dickens książka Sketches by Boz

Characters, Ch. 2 : A Christmas Dinner
Sketches by Boz (1836-1837)
Kontekst: Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused — in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened — by the recurrence of Christmas. There are people who will tell you that Christmas is not to them what it used to be; that each succeeding Christmas has found some cherished hope, or happy prospect, of the year before, dimmed or passed away; that the present only serves to remind them of reduced circumstances and straitened incomes — of the feasts they once bestowed on hollow friends, and of the cold looks that meet them now, in adversity and misfortune. Never heed such dismal reminiscences. There are few men who have lived long enough in the world, who cannot call up such thoughts any day in the year. Then do not select the merriest of the three hundred and sixty-five for your doleful recollections, but draw your chair nearer the blazing fire — fill the glass and send round the song — and if your room be smaller than it was a dozen years ago, or if your glass be filled with reeking punch, instead of sparkling wine, put a good face on the matter, and empty it off-hand, and fill another, and troll off the old ditty you used to sing, and thank God it’s no worse. Look on the merry faces of your children (if you have any) as they sit round the fire. One little seat may be empty; one slight form that gladdened the father’s heart, and roused the mother’s pride to look upon, may not be there. Dwell not upon the past; think not that one short year ago, the fair child now resolving into dust, sat before you, with the bloom of health upon its cheek, and the gaiety of infancy in its joyous eye. Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. Fill your glass again, with a merry face and contented heart. Our life on it, but your Christmas shall be merry, and your new year a happy one!

“Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”

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Charles Dickens książka Sketches by Boz

“Mr. Augustus Minns was a bachelor, of about forty as he said — of about eight-and-forty as his friends said.”

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Charles Dickens

First lines of Dicken's first published work, originally titled "A Dinner at Poplar Walk" (1833), later published as "Mr. Minns and his Cousin"
Kontekst: Mr. Augustus Minns was a bachelor, of about forty as he said — of about eight-and-forty as his friends said. He was always exceedingly clean, precise, and tidy: perhaps somewhat priggish, and the most retiring man in the world.

“Love is not a feeling to pass away,
Like the balmy breath of a summer day;
It is not — it cannot be — laid aside;
It is not a thing to forget or hide.”

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Charles Dickens

Lucy's Song in The Village Coquettes (1836); later published in The Poems and Verses of Charles Dickens (1903)
Kontekst: p>Love is not a feeling to pass away,
Like the balmy breath of a summer day;
It is not — it cannot be — laid aside;
It is not a thing to forget or hide.
It clings to the heart, ah, woe is me!
As the ivy clings to the old oak tree.Love is not a passion of earthly mould,
As a thirst for honour, or fame, or gold:
For when all these wishes have died away,
The deep strong love of a brighter day,
Though nourished in secret, consumes the more,
As the slow rust eats to the iron’s core.</p

“He was not unamiable, but he could at any time have viewed the execution of a dog, or the assassination of an infant, with the liveliest satisfaction. Their habits were at variance with his love of order; and his love of order, was as powerful as his love of life.”

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Charles Dickens

"A Dinner at Poplar Walk" (1833), later published as "Mr. Minns and his Cousin"
Kontekst: There were two classes of created objects which he held in the deepest and most unmingled horror: they were, dogs and children. He was not unamiable, but he could at any time have viewed the execution of a dog, or the assassination of an infant, with the liveliest satisfaction. Their habits were at variance with his love of order; and his love of order, was as powerful as his love of life.

“I put a New Testament among your books, for the very same reasons, and with the very same hopes that made me write an easy account of it for you, when you were a little child; because it is the best book that ever was or will be known in the world,”

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Charles Dickens

Letter to Edward Dickens (26 September 1868), published in The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens http://books.google.com.br/books?id=NJH1g1i4gnIC&printsec=frontcover&hl=pt-BR#v=onepage&q&f=false, Edited by Jenny Hartley
Kontekst: I put a New Testament among your books, for the very same reasons, and with the very same hopes that made me write an easy account of it for you, when you were a little child; because it is the best book that ever was or will be known in the world, and because it teaches you the best lessons by which any human creature who tries to be truthful and faithful to duty can possibly be guided. As your brothers have gone away, one by one, I have written to each such words as I am now writing to you, and have entreated them all to guide themselves by this book, putting aside the interpretations and inventions of men.

“Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with Heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day.”

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Charles Dickens książka Bleak House

Źródło: Bleak House (1852-1853), Ch. 47

“Grief never mended no broken bones, and as good people’s wery scarce, what I says is, make the most on ’em.”

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Charles Dickens książka Sketches by Boz

Scenes, Ch. 22 : Gin-Shops
Sketches by Boz (1836-1837)

“He wos wery good to me, he wos!”

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Charles Dickens książka Bleak House

Źródło: Bleak House (1852-1853), Ch. 11

“Take care, while you are young, that you can think in those days, 'I never whitened a hair of her dear head, I never marked a sorrowful line in her face!' For of all the many things that you can think when you are a man, you had better have that by you, Woolwich!”

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Charles Dickens książka Bleak House

Źródło: Bleak House (1852-1853), Ch. 34

“This is the Court of Chancery, which has its decaying houses and its blighted lands in every shire, which has its worn-out lunatic in every madhouse and its dead in every churchyard, which has its ruined suitor with his slipshod heels and threadbare dress borrowing and begging through the round of every man's acquaintance, which gives to monied might the means abundantly of wearying out the right, which so exhausts finances, patience, courage, hope, so overthrows the brain and breaks the heart, that there is not an honourable man among its practitioners who would not give--who does not often give--the warning, "Suffer any wrong that can be done you rather than come here!"”

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Charles Dickens książka Bleak House

Źródło: Bleak House (1852-1853), Ch. 1

“I expect a judgment. Shortly.”

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Charles Dickens książka Bleak House

Źródło: Bleak House (1852-1853), Ch. 3

“The Barnacles were a very high family, and a very large family. They were dispersed all over the public offices, and held all sorts of public places. Either the nation was under a load of obligation to the Barnacles, or the Barnacles were under a load of obligation to the nation. It was not quite unanimously settled which; the Barnacles having their opinion, the nation theirs.”

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Charles Dickens książka Mała Dorrit

Bk. I, Ch. 10
Little Dorrit (1855-1857)

“I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.”

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Charles Dickens

Comment while on an American tour (March 1842), as quoted in Dickens (1949) by Hesketh Pearson, Ch. 8

“I don’t feel any vulgar gratitude to you. I almost feel as if you ought to be grateful to me, for giving you the opportunity of enjoying the luxury of generosity. I know you like it. For anything I can tell, I may have come into the world expressly for the purpose of increasing your stock of happiness.”

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Charles Dickens książka Bleak House

Źródło: Bleak House (1852-1853), Ch. 6

“"Wal'r, my boy," replied the Captain, "in the Proverbs of Solomon you will find the following words, 'May we never want a friend in need, nor a bottle to give him!'”

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Charles Dickens książka Dombey and Son

When found, make a note of."
Źródło: Dombey and Son (1846-1848), Ch. 15

“The difficulty of writing English is most tiresome to me. My God! If only we could write this beautiful language of France at all times!”

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Charles Dickens

La difficulté d'écrire l'anglais m'est extrêmement ennuyeuse. Ah, mon Dieu! si l'on pouvait toujours écrire cette belle langue de France!
Letter to John Foster (7 July 1850)

“I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic in a pint bottle; it was not ecstasy but it was comfort.”

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Charles Dickens książka Mała Dorrit

Bk. I, Ch. 24
Little Dorrit (1855-1857)

“Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit, has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means. The parties to it understand it least; but it has been observed that no two Chancery lawyers can talk about it for five minutes, without coming to total disagreement as to all the premises.”

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Charles Dickens książka Bleak House

Źródło: Bleak House (1852-1853), Ch. 1

“The dignity of his office is never impaired by the absence of efforts on his part to maintain it.”

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Charles Dickens książka Sketches by Boz

Our Parish, Ch. 1 : The Beadle. The Parish Engine. The Schoolmaster.
Sketches by Boz (1836-1837)

“Now, I ain't alone, as you may think I am. There's a young man hid with me, in comparison with which young man I am a angel. That young man hears the words I speak. That young man has a secret way pecooliar to himself of getting at a boy, and at his heart, and at his liver. It is in wain for a boy to attempt to hide himself from that young man. A boy may lock his door, may be warm in bed, may tuck himself up, may draw the clothes over his head, may think himself comfortable and safe, but that young man will softly creep and creep his way to him and tear him open.”

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Charles Dickens książka Wielkie nadzieje

Źródło: Great Expectations (1860-1861), Ch. 1

“You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then. You have been in every prospect I have ever seen since, — on the river, on the sails of the ships, on the marshes, in the clouds, in the light, in the darkness, in the wind, in the woods, in the sea, in the streets. You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted with. The stones of which the strongest London buildings are made are not more real, or more impossible to be displaced by your hands, than your presence and influence have been to me, there and everywhere, and will be. Estella, to the last hour of my life, you cannot choose but remain part of my character, part of the little good in me, part of the evil. But, in this separation, I associate you only with the good; and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you must have done me far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may. O God bless you, God forgive you!”

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Charles Dickens książka Wielkie nadzieje

Źródło: Great Expectations (1860-1861), Ch. 44

“And if it's proud to have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts," Miss Jenny struck in, flushed, "she is proud.”

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Charles Dickens książka Our Mutual Friend

Bk. III, Ch. 2
Our Mutual Friend (1864-1865)

“Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving — HOW NOT TO DO IT.”

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Charles Dickens książka Mała Dorrit

Bk. I, Ch. 10
Little Dorrit (1855-1857)
Wariant: Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving — HOW NOT TO DO IT.