Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy; it is disposition alone.
JA Jane AustenNovelist · 1775–1817What this quote means
Closeness, Austen observes, is built on temperament and character, not on how long you have known someone. Real intimacy is a matter of who you are, not of time spent.
Context
English novelist whose sharp, warm observations of love and society still feel astonishingly modern.
This line is among the quotes by Jane Austen that readers return to on love, drawn from Sense and Sensibility — a small, portable reminder to carry into the morning.
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