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- I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and…
- To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines.
- There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all…
- If I could have made the change sooner I daresay I should never have given a thought to the literary delights of Paris or London;…
- My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a kind that cannot be gratified…
- After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
- Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
- He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.
- They are all alike you know. They hold their tongues for years and you think you're safe, but when the opportunity comes they remember everything.
- He knelt by the bed and bent over her, draining their last moment to its lees; and in the silence there passed between them the…
- In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only…
- There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart…
- It was too late for happiness - but not too late to be helped by the thought of what I had missed. That is all…
- ...I have always lived on contrasts! To me the only death is monotony. Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
- The immense accretion of flesh which had descended on her in middle life like a flood of lava on a doomed city had changed her…
- Each time you happen to me all over again.
- She had been bored all afternoon by Percy Gryce... but she could not ignore him on the morrow, she must follow up her success, must…
- The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
- The very good people did not convince me; I felt they'd never been tempted. But you knew; you understood; you felt the world outside tugging…
- She gave so many reasons that I've forgotten them all.
- Who's 'they'? Why don't you all get together and be 'they' yourselves?
- ...though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all spontaneity of feeling, and…
- I believe I know the only cure, which is to make one’s center of life inside of one’s self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with…
- And all the while, I suppose," he thought, "real people were living somewhere, and real things happening to them ...
- We shall hurt others less. Isn't it, after all, what you always wanted?
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- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
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