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Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)
Margaret Mitchell

Gone with the Wind is a novel by American writer Margaret Mitchell, first published in 1936. The story is set in Clayton County and Atlanta, both in Georgia, during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era. It depicts the struggles of young Scarlett O'Hara, the spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner, who must use every means at her disposal to claw her way out of poverty following Sherman's destructive "March to the Sea". This historical novel features a Bildungsroman or coming-of-age story, with the title taken from a poem written by Ernest Dowson.Gone with the Wind was popular with American readers from the outset and was the top American fiction bestseller in 1936 and 1937. As of 2014, a Harris poll found it to be the second favorite book of American readers, just behind the Bible. More than 30 million copies have been printed worldwide.

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“Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

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“Like most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no further.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

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“It was not often that she was alone like this and she did not like it. When she was alone she had to think and, these days, thoughts were not so pleasant.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

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“Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

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“How wonderful to know someone who was bad and dishonorable and a cheat and a liar, when all the world was filled with people who would not lie to save their souls and who would rather starve than do a dishonorable deed!”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

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“I was right when I said I’d never look back. It hurts too much, it drags at your heart till you can’t ever do anything else except look back.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

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“Babies, babies, babies. Why did God make so many babies? But no, God didn't make them. Stupid people made them.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

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“All really nice girls wonder when men don't try to kiss them. They know they shouldn't want them to and they know they must act insulted if they do, but just the same, they wish the men would try.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

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“I'm tempting you with fine gifts until your girlish ideals are quite worn away and you are at my mercy.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

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“He made her play and she had almost forgotten how. Life had been so serious and so bitter. He knew how to play and swept her along with him.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

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“That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

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“I've always had a weakness for lost causes once they're really lost.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

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“Perhaps - I want the old days back again and they'll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

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“If I said I was madly in love with you you'd know I was lying.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

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“Say you’ll marry me when I come back or, before God, I won’t go. I’ll stay around here and play a guitar under your window every night and sing at the top of my voice and compromise you, so you’ll have to marry me to save your reputation.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

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“They were always like two people talking to each other in different languages. But she loved him so much, when he withdrew as he had now done, it was like the warm sun going down and leaving her in chilly twilight dews.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

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“Now she had a fumbling knowledge that, had she ever understood Ashley, she would never have loved him; had she ever understood Rhett, she would never have lost him.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind