Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes

• She belongs to the winter that is past, to the darkness that is over, and has no part or lot in the life I shall lead for the next six months. Oh, I could dance and sing for joy that the spring is here! What a ressurection of beauty there is in my garden, and of brightest hope in my heart.

  Elizabeth von Arnim

  Primavera, Corazón, Invierno

  Elizabeth Von Arnim (2006). “Elizabeth and Her German Garden”, p.156, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• What a blessing it is to love books.

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  Book, Blessing

  Elizabeth von Arnim (2016). “The Solitary Summer”, p.16, Elizabeth von Arnim

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• What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden.

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  Educational, Book, Healing

  Elizabeth von Arnim (2016). “The Solitary Summer”, p.16, Elizabeth von Arnim

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• [Walking] is the perfect way of moving if you want to see into the life of things. It is the one way of freedom. If you go to a place on anything but your own feet you are taken there too fast, and miss a thousand delicate joys that were waiting for you by the wayside.

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  Taken, Moving, Journey

  Elizabeth von Arnim (2016). “The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen”, p.3, Elizabeth von Arnim

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• The longer I live the greater is my respect for manure in all its forms.

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  Form, Compost, Greater

  Elizabeth Arnim, Elizabeth Von Arnim (2005). “Elizabeth and Her German Garden”, p.219, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Well, I for one am unable to imagine how anybody who lives with an intelligent and devoted dog can every be lonely.

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  Dog, Lonely, Intelligent

  Elizabeth von Arnim (2014). “All The Dogs Of My Life: A Virago Modern Classic”, p.42, Hachette UK

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• Si uno creyera en los ángeles, sentiría que deben amarnos mejor cuando estamos dormidos y no podemos hacernos daño; y qué misericordia es que una vez cada veinticuatro horas estemos demasiado cansados para seguir siendo crueles.

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  Hurt, Angel, Twenties

  Elizabeth von Arnim (2016). “The Solitary Summer”, p.28, Elizabeth von Arnim

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• There's no safety in love. You risk the whole of life. But the great thing is to risk -to believe, and to risk everything for your belief.

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  Love You, Believe, Safety

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• Home is the best place when life begins to wobble.

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  Home, Best Place

  Elizabeth von Arnim (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth von Arnim (Illustrated)”, p.1042, Delphi Classics

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• I would recommend to those persons who are inclined to stagnate, whose blood is beginning to thicken sluggishly in their veins, to try keeping four dogs, two of which are puppies.

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  Funny, Dog, Blood

  Elizabeth von Arnim (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth von Arnim (Illustrated)”, p.4178, Delphi Classics

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• Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.

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  Love Is, Shameless, Decent

  Elizabeth Von Arnim, Elizabeth (1995). “Love”

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• I want to be as idle as I can, so that my soul may have time to grow.

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  Soul, May, Want

  Elizabeth von Arnim (2016). “The Solitary Summer”, p.2, Elizabeth von Arnim

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• Guests can be, and often are, delightful, but they should never be allowed to get the upper hand.

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  Friendship, Hands, Guests

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• But it is impossible, I find, to tidy books without ending by sitting on the floor in the middle of a great untidiness and reading.

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  Book, Reading, Sitting

  Elizabeth von Arnim (2016). “In the Mountains”, p.12, Elizabeth von Arnim

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• ... Why, it would really be being unselfish to go away and be happy for a little, because we would come back so much nicer.

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  Going Away, Littles, Unselfish

  Elizabeth von Arnim (2016). “The Enchanted April”, p.11, Jester House Publishing

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• Y el verano parece como si fuera a soñar para siempre.

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  Summer, Dream, Seems

  Elizabeth Von Arnim (2006). “Elizabeth and Her German Garden”, p.39, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• For I'm afraid of loneliness; shiveringly, terribly afraid. I don't mean the ordinary physical loneliness, for here I am, deliberately travelled away from London to get to it, to its spaciousness and healing. I mean that awful loneliness of spirit that is the ultimate tragedy of life. When you've got to that, really reached it, without hope, without escape, you die. You just can't bear it, and you die.

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  Fear, Loneliness, Healing

  Elizabeth von Arnim (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth von Arnim (Illustrated)”, p.1738, Delphi Classics

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• If your lot makes you cry and be wretched, get rid of it and take another; strike out for yourself; don't listen to the shriek of your relations...don't be afraid of public opinion in the shape of the neighbours in the next house, when all the world is before you new and shining, and everything is possible, if you will only be energetic and independent and seize opportunity by the scruff of the neck.

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  Independent, Opportunity, Shining

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• It is beautiful, beautiful to give; one of the very most beautiful things in life.

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  Beautiful, Things In Life, Giving

  Elizabeth von Arnim (2016). “Fräulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther”, p.60, Elizabeth von Arnim

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• I have been much afflicted again lately by visitors . . . and they gave me to understand that if they had had the arranging of the garden it would have been finished long ago - whereas I don't believe a garden is ever finished. They have all gone now, thank heaven.

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  Friendship, Believe, Garden

  Elizabeth Von Arnim (2006). “Elizabeth and Her German Garden”, p.34, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• if you have once thoroughly bored somebody it is next to impossible to unbore him.

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  Bored, Next, Impossible

  Elizabeth von Arnim (2016). “The Enchanted April”, p.119, Jester House Publishing

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• Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people, and will not show me their full beauties unless the place and time in which they are read suits them.

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  Book, People, Suits

  Elizabeth von Arnim (2016). “The Solitary Summer”, p.14, Elizabeth von Arnim

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• Cuando llegué a la biblioteca me quedé paralizada, -ah, la querida sala, qué tiempos tan felices he pasado en ella rebuscando entre los libros, haciendo planes para mi jardín, construyendo castillos en el aire, escribiendo, soñando, sin hacer nada.

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  Sueño, Libro, Escritura

  Elizabeth Von Arnim (2006). “Elizabeth and Her German Garden”, p.82, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• ... sin él (el amor), sin, en cualquier caso, la capacidad para ello, la gente no parecía ser muy buena. Secas como huesos viejos, frías como piedras, parecían volverse, cuando se acababa el amor; inhumanas, indiferentes, ensimismadas, entumecidas.

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  Love, Self, People

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• On wet days I will go into the thickest parts of the forest, where the pine needles are everlastingly dry, and when the sun shines I'll lie on the heath and see how the broom flares against the clouds. I shall be perpetually happy, because there will be no one to worry me.

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  Lying, Clouds, Worry

  Elizabeth Von Arnim (2005). “The Solitary Summer”, p.5, 1st World Publishing

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