A pioneer should have imagination, should be able to enjoy the idea of things more than the things themselves.
"And now the old story has begun to write itself over there," said Carl softly. "Isn't it queer: there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in this country, that have been singing the same five notes over for thousands of years."
How terrible it was to love people when you could not really share their lives!
Who shall say which is more ghastly, the sight of the bleached skulls or of dried-up human hearts
She was pretty by force of contrast; if she had been happy, she would have been charming. Happiness is the poetry of woman, as the toilette is her tinsel
she lacked the two things which create woman a second time — pretty dresses and love-letters
no accusations mingled with her prayers.
Father Goriot, upon whose face a painter, like the historian, would have concentrated all the light in his picture
Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering
It is one of the most detestable habits of a Liliputian mind to credit other people with its own malignant pettiness
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