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From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.

And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.

With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.

She was saying goodbye and she didn't even know it.

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love

Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.

A small fact:You are going to die....does this worry you?

I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.

Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.

People are always ruining things for you.

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?

If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.

You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fightin' with your head for a change.

It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.

If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.