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“Dogs can find such a type of comfort from lying back into their own bodies, that on certain winter evenings in front of certain fires, they seem to say, yes, it is also wonderful to die”
― Love Notes from a German Building Site
― Love Notes from a German Building Site
“Let them be! We shall sit with lighter bosoms on the hearth, to see the ashes of our fires turn gray and cold.”
― Hard Times
― Hard Times
“This is a bad life for good children”
― Islands in the Stream
― Islands in the Stream
“We can’t choose happiness either for ourselves or for another; we can’t tell where that will lie. We can only choose whether we will indulge ourselves in the present moment, or whether we will renounce that, for the sake of obeying the divine voice within us,—for the sake of being true to all the motives that sanctify our lives. I know this belief is hard; it has slipped away from me again and again; but I have felt that if I let it go forever, I should have no light through the darkness of this life”
― The Mill on the Floss
― The Mill on the Floss
“She was looking at the tier of geraniums as she spoke, and Stephen made no answer; but he was looking at her; and does not a supreme poet blend light and sound into one, calling darkness mute, and light eloquent? Something strangely powerful there was in the light of Stephen's long gaze, for it made Maggie's face turn toward it and look upward at it, slowly, like a flower at the ascending brightness. And they walked unsteadily on, without feeling that they were walking; without feeling anything but that long, grave, mutual gaze which has the solemnity belonging to all deep human passion. The hovering thought that they must and would renounce each other made this moment of mute confession more intense in its rapture.”
― The Mill on the Floss
― The Mill on the Floss
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