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- Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!
- Of course what he most intensely dreams of is being taken out on walks, and the more you are able to indulge him the more…
- It is indeed immensely picturesque. I can fancy sitting all a summer's day watching its shadows shorten and lengthen again, and drawing a delicious contrast…
- All intimacies are based on differences.
- I had an excellent repast - the best repast possible - which consisted simply of boiled eggs and bread and butter. It was the quality…
- The image of the presence, whatever it was, waiting there for him to go -this image had not yet been so concrete for his nerves…
- She had her own way of doing all that she did, and this is the simplest description of a character which, although by no means…
- I have only to let myself go! So I have said all my life, yet I have never fully done it.
- Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
- I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.
- My idea is this, that when you only love a little you’re naturally not jealous-or are only jealous also a little, so that it doesn’t…
- She envied Ralph his dying, for if one were thinking of rest that was the most perfect of all. To cease utterly, to give it…
- ...I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say - feel for all you're worth, and even if it half kills…
- Make (the reader) think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications. My values are positively all blanks,…
- I take up my own pen again - the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles. To myself - today - I…
- To live only to suffer—only to feel the injury of life repeated and enlarged—it seemed to her she was too valuable, too capable, for that.…
- I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine…
- Live all you can; it's a mistake not to.
- Take the word for it of a man who has made his way inch by inch, and does not believe that we'll wake up to…
- You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
- Live all you can. It's a mistake not to. It doesn't much matter what you do in particular, so much as you LIVE while you're…
- To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.
- Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your…
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