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It makes a difference doesn't it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand.
I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
The circle of life is cut up into segments. All lines are equal if they are drawn from the centre and touch the circumference.
I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.
Whenever I watch 'The Matrix,' I think that it is possible, but I don't think that it's going to be machines enslaving humans.
an old woman ... is a person who has no sense of decency; if once she takes to living, the devil himself can't get rid of her.
Wealth per se I never too much valued, and my acquaintance with its possessors has by no means increased my veneration for it.
Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.
If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man ... just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality.
It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.
At some point, you no longer feel pain. Sensation disappears and reason is dulled, until you lose all grasp of time and place.
Florentina Ariza had kept his answer ready for fifty-three years, seven months and eleven days and nights. 'Forever,' he said.
The truth was that I could not manage my soul, and I was becoming aware of old age because of my weakness in the face of love.
This was his world, he said to himself, the sad, oppressive world that God had provided for him, and he was responsible to it.
Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.
Opinions: men's thoughts about great subjects. Taste: their thoughts about small ones: dress, behavior, amusements, ornaments.
What people do who go into politics I can't think; it drives me almost mad to see mismanagement over only a few hundred acres.
I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.
To like Keats is a test of fitness for understanding poetry, just as to like Shakespeare is a test of general mental capacity.
The primary aim of modern warfare ... is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living.
Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished forever.
They were never my pack, not even Hot Pie and Gendry. I was stupid to think so, just a stupid little girl, and no wolf at all.
One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that are not predictable.
Make no mistake, dwarf. I fought for you, but I do not love you'' ''It was your blade I needed'' Tyrion said, ''not your love.
There must always be some pretentiousness about literature, or else no one would take its pains or endure its disappointments.
Galinda didn't often stop to consider whether she believed in what she said or not; the whole point of conversations was flow.
I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city.
I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself.
See there?" Jem was scowling triumphantly. "Nothin' to it. I swear, Scout, sometimes you act so much like a girl its mortifyin
My daddy had a pocket watch that he wore at all times in court. I gave Greg the watch and showed him how Daddy used to use it.
I've had a lot of books rejected in my time. My first novel, which didn't get published, was, with hindsight, crashingly dull.
Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.
It is not for man to follow the trail of truth too far, since by so doing he entirely loses the directing compass of his mind.
Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are.
The only ugliness is that of the heart, seen through the face. And though beauty be obvious, the only loveliness is invisible.
When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.
From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.
Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect.
Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders.
Fake it may be, lies and deceptions, but this is the world in which we find ourselves, and here we must make our little lives.
If you come back to me, I'll never leave you", I whispered into the furry ear. "I'll make you all the pies you could ever eat.
You know anything about investigative work?" "Sure. Annoy the people involved until the guilt party tries to make you go away.
You say the sweetest things. And that spaghetti perfume you're wearing is to die for. No hobo could resist." She snarled. Heh.
I got a dog-training book. It says Grendel needs mental stimulation, so I tried to train him, but I think he must be retarded.
You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul.