The Great Fortune

Harriet was reminded of Doamna Flöhr’s claim that the exclusiveness of the Jews was the exclusiveness of the excluded.

She’s just a typical bourgeois reactionary.’ ‘You mean, her prejudices are different from yours.

[T]he exclusiveness of the Jews was the exclusiveness of the excluded.

A man is made by his circumstances... If you want to change him, change his circumstances.

... freedom is the knowledge of necessity and there is no wealth but life. When you understand that you understand everything.

Looking at Sophie's well developed bosom, Harriet felt at a disadvantage. Perhaps Sophie's shape would not last. but it was enviable while it lasted.