If once we begin judging and arguing about everything, nothing sacred will be left!
I wanted to run after him, but remembered that it is ridiculous to run after one's wife's lover in one's socks; and I did not wish to be ridiculous but terrible.
I must ask what it is you want of me?What can I want? All I can want is that you should not desert me, as you think of doing, she said, understanding all he had not uttered. But that I don't want; tha...
I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be. -Dolly
Her glance, the touch of her hand, set him aflame. He kissed the palm of his hand where she had touched it, and went home, happy in the sense that he had got nearer to the attainment of his aims that...
Her face was brilliant and glowing; but this glow was not one of brightness; it suggested the fearful glow of a conflagration in the midst of a dark night.
He went down trying not to look long at her, as though she were the sun, but he saw her, as one sees the sun, without looking.
He wanted and needed their love, but felt none towards them. He now had neither love nor humility nor purity
He sought his former accustomed fear of death and did not find it. Where is it? What death? There was no fear because there was no death.In place of death there was light.
He liked fishing and seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation.
He felt that all his hitherto dissipated and dispersed forces were gathered and directed with terrible energy towards one blissful goal.
En la vida sólo hay dos verdaderas desgracias: el remordimiento de conciencia y la enfermedad. Y la felicidad es sólamente la ausencia de estos dos males.
Drops Dripped. Quiet talk went on. Horses neighed and scuffled. Someone snored.
Do not seek quiet and rest in those earthly realms where delusions and desires are engendered, for if thou dost, thou wilt be dragged through the rough wilderness of life, which is far from Me.
Book is a nice companion
Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.
As though tears were the indispensable oil without which the machinery of mutual confidence could not run smoothly between the two sister, the sisters after their tears talked, not of what was uppermo...
Although on a conscious level a man lives for himself, he is actually being used for the attainment of humanity's historical aims. A deed once done becomes irrevocable, and any action comes together o...
A man is never such an egotist as at moments of spiritual ecstasy. At such times it seems to him that there is nothing on earth more splendid and interesting than himself.
The ruling classes have in their hands the army, money, the schools, the churches, and the press. In the schools, they kindle patriotism in the children by means of histories describing their own peop...