The actual experience of even the most ordinary life is full of events that never explain themselves, either as regards their origin or their tendency.
It is a great mistake to try to put our best thoughts into human language.
...they looked like fragments of the world, broken adrift and based on nothingness...
It is the special excellence of pictured glass, that the light, which falls merely on the outside of other pictures, is here interfused throughout the work.
She had lost--and she trembled lest it should have departed forever--the faculty of appreciating those great works of art, which heretofore had made so large a portion of her happiness.
...he sometimes discovered that they looked fanciful only because so absolutely true.
She chose the better and loftier and more unselfish part, laying her individual hopes, her fame, her prospects of enduring remembrance, at the feet of those great departed ones whom she so loved and venerated; and therefore the world was richer for this feeble girl.
Every crime destroys more Edens than our own.
- The Marble Faun, Nathaniel Hawthorne
I want to be understood.
He yawned frequently. He drank large quantities of tea, he walked about aimlessly, and when he sat down he did not budge for a long time. He spent some time drumming on the window with his finger-tips quietly. In his listless wanderings round about the table he caught sight of his own face in the looking-glass and that arrested him. The eyes which returned his stare were the most unhappy eyes he had ever seen.
...to live without fear, was also happiness.
I produced, even upon myself, the effect of a dumb helpless ghost, of an anxious immaterial thing that could only hover about without the power to protect or guide by as much as a whisper.
- Under Western Eyes, Conrad
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