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- There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It…
- ...the social mould civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to the…
- Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish…
- But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.
- ...the figure near at hand suffers on such occasions, because it shows up its sorriness without shade; while vague figures afar off are honored, in…
- I agree to the conditions, Angel; because you know best what my punishment ought to be; only - only - don't make it more than…
- My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words,…
- Many...have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a…
- ...Nameless, unknown to me as you were, I couldn't forget your voice!' 'For how long?' 'O - ever so long. Days and days.' 'Days and…
- When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second…
- Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive…
- We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
- I have felt lately, more and more, that my present way of living is bad in every respect.
- There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct – not more in ourselves, it seems, than in…
- She was not an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations, to anybody but herself. To all humankind besides Tess was only a…
- I forgot the defective can be more than the whole
- To be loved to madness--such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her…
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