We live as we dream--alone....
To the destruction of what is.
I must live until I die, mustn't I?
It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future.
The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.
Nobody, nobody is good enough
As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
But when one is young one must see things, gather experience, ideas; enlarge the mind.
The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness o...
There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget.
The typhoon had got on Jukes' nerves
No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence--that which makes its truth, its meaning--its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible...
If anybody had ever struggled with a soul, I am the man
As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.
To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.
My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.
I remembered the old doctor, - It would be interesting for science to watch the mental changes of individuals, on the spot. I felt I was becoming scientifically interesting.
I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the streets to filch a little money from each other, to devour their infamous cookery, to gulp their unwholeso...