He might have known that she would do this; she had never cared for him, she had made a fool of him from the beginning; she had no pity, she had no kindness, she had no charity. The only thing was to...
He had thought of love as a rapture which seized one so that all the world seemed spring-like, he had looked forward to an ecstatic happiness; but this was not happiness; it was a hunger of the soul,...
He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
He did not know what he sought or what his journeys would bring him; but he had a feeling that he would learn something new about life and gain some clue about the mystery that he had solved only to f...
He could not bear the thought of discussing his situation, he could endure it only by determining resolutely not to think about it. He was afraid of his weakness if once he began to open his heart.
From a social standpoint the man of science does not exist.
For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or farm in which they learnt to walk, the games they played as children, the old wives ta...
Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.
El hombre encuentra siempre más fácil sacrificar su vida que aprender la tabla de multiplicar.
E então o diabo o conduziu a um monte muito alto e mostrou-lhe os reinos do mundo, dizendo: Todas estas coisas te darei se, prostrado, me adorares. Mas Jesus respondeu: Vai-te, Satanás. De acordo com...
Don’t you think he may be pursuing an ideal that is hidden in a cloud of unknowing—like an astronomer looking for a star that only a mathematical calculation tells him exists?
Culture is not something you put on like a ready-made suit of clothes, but a nourishment you absorb to build up your personality, just as food builds up the body of a growing boy; it is not an ornamen...
Charm is essential. In the last two years I’ve got to know a good many prominent politicians and they’ve all got it. Some more and some less. But they can’t all have it by nature. That shows it can be...
And you call yourself an English gentleman,' she exclaimed, savagely.'No, that's a thing I've never done in all my life.
And then he felt the misery of his life. It seemed to his childish mind that this unhappiness must go on for ever.
Acho uma grandíssima tolice dizer que pode existir amor sem paixão; as pessoas que afirmam que o amor pode perdurar depois de esgotada a paixão referem-se a outro sentimento, afeição, bondade, comunhã...
A man thinks it quite natural that he should fall out of love with a woman, but it never strikes him for a moment that a woman can do anything so unnatural as to fall out of love with him.
As we know, Christian charity has always been able to make allowances for a lot of good honest hatred,...
They could keep order better than a foreigner, and, since they knew the grammar as well as any Frenchman, it seemed unimportant that none of them could have got a cup of coffee in the restaurant at Bo...
One could reconcile oneself to existence only because it was meaningless.