Pessimism is playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.
Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.
...our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes
A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.
Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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 than speech.
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 is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.
I want to question my belief, so that what is left after I have questioned it, will be even stronger.
That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
All romances end at marriage.
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest.
Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.
The beggarly question of parentage--what is it, after all? What does it matter, when you come to think of it, whether a child is yours by blood or not? All the little ones of our time are collectively the children of us adults of the time, and entitled to our general care. That excessive regard of parents for their own children, and their dislike of other people's, is, like class-feeling, patriotism, save-your-own-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom.
A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.
The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
You have never loved me as I love you--never--never! Yours is not a passionate heart--your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite-- not a woman!
Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.
It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity
I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.
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