“ I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter into all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both. ”
Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility (1811). copy citation
| Author | Jane Austen |
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| Source | Sense and Sensibility |
| Topic | relationship art taste |
| Date | 1811 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/21839/21839-h/21839-h.htm |
Context
“It is evident, in spite of his frequent attention to her while she draws, that in fact he knows nothing of the matter. He admires as a lover, not as a connoisseur. To satisfy me, those characters must be united. I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter into all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both. Oh! mama, how spiritless, how tame was Edward's manner in reading to us last night! I felt for my sister most severely. Yet she bore it with so much composure, she seemed scarcely to notice it. I could hardly keep my seat.”
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