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“As a quick aside, let me observe that in moments of high emotion—whether they’re triggered by anger or envy, humiliation or resentment—if the next thing you’re going to say makes you feel better, then it’s probably the wrong thing to say.”
― Rules of Civility
― Rules of Civility
“(...) nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.”
― Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
― Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
“Remember that I am thy creature: I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed. Every where I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded. I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
“There is no greater sorrow
Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery”
― The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery”
― The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
“Little they cared what anybody thought, for they were enjoying the happy hour that seldom comes but once in any life, the magical moment which bestows youth on the old, beauty on the plain, wealth on the poor, and gives human hearts a foretaste of heaven. The Professor looked as if he had conquered a kingdom, and the world had nothing more to offer him in the way of bliss. While Jo trudged beside him, feeling as if her place had always been there, and
wondering how she ever could have chosen any other lot.”
― Little Women
wondering how she ever could have chosen any other lot.”
― Little Women
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