Ali znate, nas dve smo toliko različite: ona voli da bude dobra, a ja volim da budem srećna.
Age seemed to have come down on him as winter comes on the hills after a storm.
Absent- that was what he was: so absent from everything most densely real and near to those about him that it sometimes startled him to find they still imagined he was there.
A tremor of apprehension encircled the room. None of the ladies required any preparation to pronounce on a question of morals; but when they were called ethics it was different. The club, when fresh f...
How much did pride count in the ebullition of passions in his breast?
He arrived late at the office, perceived that his doing so made no difference whatever to any one, and was filled with sudden exasperation at the elaborate futility of his life
And he was struck again by the religious revernce of even the most unworldly American women for the social advantages of dress.'It's their armour,' he thought, 'their defence against the unknown, and...
He was the kind of man who brings a sour mouth to the eating of the sweetest apple.
He remembered once hearing his grandmother... say plaintively: Why daughter, I presume I can go without -- BUT I CAN'T ECONOMIZE.
He could do charming things, if only he had known how to finish them!
I suppose there is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person however dear and beloved but an expansion an interpretation of one's self.
О, не, изобщо не искаше на Мей да бъде присъща такава наивност, тази наивност, която предпазва ума от въображението, а сърцето — от житейския опит.
The first six months were always the most difficult in marriage. After that I suppose we shall have pretty nearly finished rubbing off each other's angles, he reflected; but the worst of it was that M...
Name’s Regina Dallas,’ I said, ‘It was Beaufort when he covered you with jewels, and it’s got to stay Beaufort now that he’s covered you with shame.’ ’’ So
Cherished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the new people whom New York was beginning to dread and yet be drawn to; and the sentimental clung to it for its historic associatio...
You see, Monsieur, it's worth everything, isn't it, to keep one's intellectual liberty, not to enslave one's powers of appreciation, one's critical independence?
Why do you do this to me? she cried. Why do you make the things I have chosen seem hateful to me, if you have nothing to give me instead?No, I have nothing to give you instead, he said, sitting up and...
What’s the use—when you will go back? he broke out, a great hopeless How on earth can I keep you? crying out to her beneath his words.
What more she said, or what de Crucis answered, he could never afterward recall. He had a confused sense of having cried out a last unavailing protest, faintly, inarticulately, like a man struggling t...
What are the Italians of today but men tricked out in women's finery, when they should be waiting full-armed to rally at the first signal of revolt? Oh, for the day when a poet shall arise who dares t...