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“A habit of finding pleasure in thought rather than action is a safeguard against unwisdom and excessive love of power, a means of preserving serenity in misfortune and peace of mind among worries. A life confined to what is personal is likely, sooner or later, to become unbearably painful; it is only by windows into a larger and less fretful cosmos that the more tragic parts of life become endurable.”
― In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays
― In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays
“But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.”
― Dead Souls
― Dead Souls
“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
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“The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.”
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“The love, born of beauty was not mine; I had nothing in common with it: I could not dare to meddle with it, but another love, venturing diffidently into life after long acquaintance, furnace-tried by pain, stamped by constancy, consolidated by affection’s pure and durable alloy, submitted by intellect to intellect’s own tests, and finally wrought up, by his own process, to his own unflawed completeness, this Love that laughed at Passion, his fast frenzies and his hot and hurried extinction, in this Love I had a vested interest; and whatever tended either to its culture or its destruction, I could not view impassibly.”
― Villette
― Villette
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