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- There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.
- As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy,…
- Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that, when I ask…
- Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.
- The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!
- All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of.
- To look at a thing is very different from seeing it.
- The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, often are very…
- Reforms in Russia are very tragic, but they always end in a farce.
- The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.
- To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to…
- 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…
- For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us.
- 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…
- I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.
- It is a very dangerous thing to know one’s friends.
- 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…
- The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.
- I was very much disappointed in the Atlantic Ocean.
- There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with…
- Yet, even for us, there is left some loveliness of environment, and the dullness of tutors and professors matters very little when one can loiter…
- In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.
- The birds did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one…
- Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught.
- A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all…
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