“Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn--that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness--that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling.”
― Persuasion
― Persuasion
“No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now.”
― Dandelion Wine
― Dandelion Wine
“That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency, has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind; and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“..holding a book but reading the empty spaces.”
― Something Wicked This Way Comes
― Something Wicked This Way Comes
“Because Spanish is a feeling-based language that comes first from the heart, just as English is a thinking-based language that comes first from the head.”
― Burro Genius
― Burro Genius
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