Then as each month, each year passed, it was as if the memory of you - of us… the explosion - were encased in a fine tissue-paper.’ … 'I felt as if I were looking through a window to my own past, and...
There is nothing of which every man is so afraid, as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
There's only one thing left to do. St. Paul's on Old Year's Night. For Auld Lang Syne, my dears. For old time's sake.
They say the face tells all there is to know about a life, but I personally believe much can be deduced from the hands. There are lines and scars, bumps and calluses; indeed, the hands are both the sk...
Those of us who have reached our more mature years know the value of a nap, Maisie, and we can indulge ourselves without the comfort of pillow or bed.
Thus a day that had seen so many tears ended in the midst of a rainbow.
Thus he always wrote using a pencil with a long, sharp but soft lead, so he couldn't here his words as they formed on the page.
Trouble is, your best ain’t always the best for those who want a say in the matter.
Truth walks toward us on the paths of our questions...as soon as you think you have the answer, you have closed the path and may miss vital new information. Wait awhile in the stillness, and do not ru...
Truth walks towards us on the paths of our questions. [Dr. Maurice Blanche]
War’s always the same though—politicians square off and ordinary lads do their dirty work.
What is certain, is that war will not leave us as it found us. —WOMAN AT HOME, February 1915
Wisdom comes when we acknowledge what we can never know.
With a true masterpiece, there are no words required. Discourse is rendered redundant. That's why the work of a master transcends all notions of education, of class. It rises above the onlooker's unde...
Wolfgang von Goethe:A man can stand anything, except a succession of ordinary days.
You should allow yourself to indulge in this remembrance. When you face the past, all you will see is that which has gone before. So I have some advice: Let this be your turning point. Have done with...
[Maisie]:...going out for luncheon with a gentleman is definitely not the same as going out to dine in the evening. [Billy]: You get more grub at dinner, for a start
Everyone has a capacity for evil. And we’ve all seen it, and done it, even if we think we haven’t—there’s the slight in conversation that wounds another person, the words we know will cause pain to a...
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Intimacy that can be had, even in a crowded room, when two people want only
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