Jealousy is perhaps the most involuntary of all strong emotions. It steals consciousness, it lies deeper than thought. It is always there, like a blackness in the eye, it discolours the world.
And she wondered now how she could go on existing through the successive moments of her life.
Los hombres adultos manifiestan la misma facilidad para hacer suposiciones metafísicas completamente absurdas que ellos encuentran consoladoras. Por ejemplo, la suposición de que el bien es reluciente...
That's how vile i am! I live Ireland, I breathe Ireland, and Christ how I loathe it, I wish I were a bloody Scot, that's how bloody awful it is being Irish!
Rosina had the fierce charm of the rather nasty girl in the fairy-tale who fails to get the prince, but is more interesting than the girl who does, and has better lines too.
You seem to think the past is unreal, a pit full of ghosts. But to me the past is in some ways the most real thing of all, and loyalty to it the most important thing of all.
But whatever she was I loved her and was committed to her and had always been, here and out beyond the stars, those stars behind stars behind stars which I had seen that night when I lay on the rocks...
I had deluded myself throughout by the idea of reviving a secret love which did not exist at all.
How easily one is hurt. Or is it only I who am so stupidly vulnerable.
She was not just a wild creature, she was a wounded creature.
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
You see, I'm not mad, I suffer from depression. It's not like ordinary misery. It's like dying of boredom. It's .
I said, Your brother is in bed with my wife. I added, I just took them up some wine in bed.
The self, the place where we live, is a place of illusion. Goodness is connected with the attempt to see the unself, to see and to respond to the real world in the light of a virtuous consciousness. T...
The virtues have secret names: they are, so difficult of access, secret things. Everything that is worthy is secret.
The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
It is not simply that suppression of self is required before accurate vision can be obtained. The great artist sees his objects (and this is true whether they are sad, absurd, repulsive or even evil)...
And she did seem then to go to sleep instantly: the quick flight into oblivion of the chronically unhappy person.
To say we were 'in love', that vague weakened phrase, cannot express it. We loved each other, we lived in each other, through each other, by each other. We were each other. Why was it such pure unadul...
While the light remains,' said Carde, speaking slowly in his high deliberate voice, 'only do not forsake the joy of life. If you shall have given all your kisses, you will give too few. And as leaves...
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