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| 92c460b | But if Maggie had been that young lady, you would probably have known nothing about her: her life would have had so few vicissitudes that it could hardly have been written; for the happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history. | George Eliot | ||
| 6fbad5c | There are characters which are continually creating collisions and nodes for themselves in dramas which nobody is prepared to act with them. Their susceptibilities will clash against objects that remain innocently quiet. | George Eliot | ||
| 995e43e | While the heart beats, bruise it--it is your only opportunity | George Eliot | ||
| 4fc0a35 | Her heart went out to him with a stronger movement than ever, at the thought that people would blame him. Maggie hated blame; she had been blamed her whole life, and nothing had come of it but evil tempers. | George Eliot | ||
| 6cdaeff | It's rather a strong check to one's self-complacency to find how much of one's right doing depends on not being in want of money. | George Eliot | ||
| bdb4f16 | To pursue truth with such astonishing lack of consideration for other people's feelings, to rend the think veils of civilisation so wantonly, so brutally, was to her so horrible an outrage of human decency that, without replying, dazed and blinded, she bend her head as if to let her pelt f jagged hail, the drench of dirty water, bespatter her unrebuked. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 29ded1d | She looked pale, mysterious, like a lily, drowned under water, he thought. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| df1ac72 | The lake of my mind, unbroken by oars, heaves placidly and soon sinks into an oily somnolence.' That will be useful. | mind useful | Virginia Woolf | |
| b71c085 | women are so suspicious of any interest that has not some obvious motive behind it, so terribly accustomed to concealment and suppression, that they are off at the flicker of an eye turned observingly in their direction. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| ad7a841 | Now to sum it up,' said Bernard. 'Now to explain to you the meaning of my life. Since we do not know each other (though I met you once I think, on board a ship going to Africa), we can talk freely. The illusion is upon me that something adheres for a moment, has roundness, weight, depth, is completed. This, for the moment, seems to be my life. If it were possible, I would hand it you entire. I would break it off as one breaks off a bunch of.. | conclusion life | Virginia Woolf | |
| a7f46ea | She fell into a deep pool of sticky water, which eventually closed over her head. She saw nothing and heard nothing but a faint booming sound, which was the sound of the sea rolling over her head. While all her tormentors thought that she was dead, she was not dead, but curled up at the bottom of the sea. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 1576cc6 | It was the intimacy, a sort of spiritual suppleness, when mind prints upon mind indelibly. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 02725f6 | It is equally vain," she thought, "for you to think you can protect me, or for me to think I can worship you. The light of truth beats upon us without shadow, and the light of truth is damnably unbecoming to us both." | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 3289b89 | The spring without a leaf to toss, bare and bright like a virgin fierce in her chastity, scornful in her purity, was laid out on fields wide-eyed and watchful and entirely careless of what was done or thought by the beholders. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| b12da29 | I believe that the main thing in beginning a novel is to feel, not that you can write it, but that it exists on the far side of a gulf, which words can't cross; that its to be pulled through only in a breathless anguish. [VW] | Vita Sackville-West | ||
| d8cd258 | Everything is strange. Things are huge and very small. The stalks of flowers are thick as oak trees. Leaves are high as the domes of vast cathedrals. We are giants, lying here, who can make forests quiver. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 7a3a13e | What did it mean to her, this thing she called life? Oh, it was very queer. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 67456d5 | The morning was hot, and the exercise of reading left her mind contracting and expanding like the main-spring of a clock, and the small noises of midday, which one can ascribe to no definite cause, in a regular rhythm. It was all very real, very big, very impersonal, and after a moment or two she began to raise her first finger and to let it fall on the arm of her chair so as to bring back to herself some consciousness of her own existence... | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 2f24899 | I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| e00bad5 | For Love, to which we may now return, has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together that you cannot separate them. In this case, Orlando's love began her flight towards him with her white face turned, and her smooth and lovely body outwards. Neare.. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 2427b39 | Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were scattered through him in a sort of picturesque disorder. Self-sacrifice, magnanimity in decisive moments, courage, intelligence--and with all that, a generous mixture of self-love, ambition, vanity, petty personal ticklishness, and a good many of those things which a man simply cannot do without. | Nikolai Gogol | ||
| 0fa632f | It is well-known that there are many faces in the world over the finishing of which nature did not take much trouble, did not employ any fine tools such as files, gimlets, and so on, but simply hacked them out with round strokes: one chop-a nose appears; another chop-lips appear; eyes are scooped out with a big drill; and she lets it go into the world rough-hewn, saing: "ALIVE!" | Nikolai Gogol | ||
| c887f91 | The mind is inherently embodied. Thought is mostly unconscious. Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical. | George Lakoff | ||
| ed48f1a | From a little spark may burst a flame. | Dante Alighieri | ||
| c35d22e | Now you must cast aside your laziness," my master said, "for he who rests on down or under covers cannot come to fame; and he who spends his life without renown leaves such a vestige of himself on earth as smoke bequeaths to air or foam to water. Therefore, get up; defeat your breathlessness with spirit that can win all battles if the body's heaviness does not deter it. A longer ladder still is to be climbed; it's not enough to have left th.. | Dante Alighieri | ||
| b32f0ec | And when he had put his hand on mine with a cheerful look, wherefrom I took courage, he brought me within to the secret things. Here sighs, laments, and deep wailings were resounding through the starless air; wherefore at first I wept thereat. Strange tongues, horrible utterances, words of woe, accents of anger, voices high and faint, and sounds of hands with them, were making a tumult which whirls always in that air forever dark, like the .. | Dante Alighieri | ||
| 895f41a | And a young prince must be prudent like that, giving freely while his father lives so that afterwards, in age when fighting starts steadfast companions will stand by him and hold the line. | gifts leadership seamus-heaney | Seamus Heaney | |
| 15288b3 | The truth. Men will blind themselves with hot irons, rather than face it. | ignorance truth | David Gemmell | |
| 8427416 | I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding | Beatrix Potter | ||
| 5ff3feb | Sister, why do you do that?" "Do what?" "Cage the animals at night?" "Well..." She looked up and out through the barred window before answering me."We don't want to, Jennings, but we have to. You see, the animals that are given to us we have to take care of. If we didn't cage them up in one place, we might lose them, they might get hurt or damaged. It's not the best thing, but it's the only way we have to take care of them." "But if somebod.. | family foster-care memoirs neglect nun runaway stuffed-animals youth | Jennings Michael Burch | |
| ff6e09f | nh mn l'fDl 'n t`ysh qdrk nqSan mn 'n t`ysh tqlydan lHy@ ry'`@ lshkhS akhr | novel | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| f5695f4 | Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| c0e7c56 | But I find God to be an ineffectual shrink. He adopts the "do nothing" method of therapy. You tell him your problems and he, ah, does nothing." | Ned Vizzini | ||
| ec34358 | Just thoughts of what I have to do. Homework. And it comes up to my brain and I look at it and think "I'm not going to be able to do that" and then it cycles back down and the next one comes up. And then things come up like "You should be doing more extracurricular activities" because I should, I don't do near enough, and that gets pushed down and it's replaced with the big one: "What college are you going into, Craig?" which is like the do.. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| a79846e | I'm glad you came here and got the help you needed," Neil says, and he shakes my hand in that way that people do in here to remind themselves that you're the patient and they're the doctor/volunteer/ employee. They like you, and they genuinely want you to do better, but when they shake your hand you feel that distance, that slight disconnect because they know that you're still broken somewhere, that you might snap at any moment." | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 3af715d | Felipe and I, as we discover to our delight, are a perfectly matched, genetically engineered belly-to-belly success story. | relates-to-me | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| c647be0 | One thing was certain: Human Time was the saddest, maddest, most devastating variety of time that had ever existed. She tried her best to ignore it. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 30017ac | I equal parts loved him and could not stand him. I couldn't wake him to share in my distress. | elizabeth-gilbert love pray | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| cf26723 | I felt a glimmer of happiness when I started studying Italian, and when you sense a faint potentiality for happiness after such dark times you must grab onto the ankles of that happiness and not let go until it drags you face-first out of the dirt-this is not selfishness, but obligation. You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| fed0699 | What life is, we know not. What life does, we know well. --LORD PERCEVAL | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| e121c2c | I was perfectly happy in my boring life before you came along. | love-story | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 740c904 | Dolce far niente: the pleasure of doing anything | foreign-language italian | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| edbba2e | The field of honor is a painful field...(It) is not a place where children can play. Children don't have any honor, you see, and they aren't expected to, because it's too difficult for them. It's too painful. But to become an adult, one must step into the field of honor. Everything will be expected of you now. You will need to be vigilant in your principles. Sacrifices will be demanded. You will be judged. If you make mistakes, you must acc.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 059cd31 | To meditate, only you must smile. Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come to you and clean away dirty energy. | Elizabeth Gilbert |