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- To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.
- We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the…
- Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them. The past, the present and the…
- I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.
- As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely…
- A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.
- Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time…
- Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow one another like the withered leaves of Autumn;…
- Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved.
- What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise for which we are later, in the fullness of time and understanding, very…
- It is always painful fo part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one…
- I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later…
- For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us. Outside, the day may be…
- That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.
- In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
- Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
- Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
- No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
- One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
- Those whom the gods love grow young.
- No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
- Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I…
- Punctuality is the thief of time
- Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have…
- Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.
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