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If he had known how many men in history have had to use a hill to die one it would not have cheered him any for, in the moment he was passing through, men are not impressed by what has happened to the other men in similar circumstances any more than a widow of one day is helped by the knowledge that other loved husbands have died.

The triumphant sense of security, of deliverance from overwhelming danger, that was what filled his whole soul that moment without thought for the future, without analysis, without suppositions or surmises, without doubts and without questioning. It was an instant of full, direct, purely instinctive joy.

Aunque no estaba propiamente enamorado, sentía una especie de tierna curiosidad.

There is a hollow empty feeling that a man can have when he is waked too early in the morning that is almost like the feeling of disaster and he had this multiplied a thousand times.

And sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it forever.

Ten little soldier boys went out to dine; One choked his little self and then there were Nine. Nine

If you chase several hares at once, you won't overtake any one of them.

It was dawn now on Long Island and we went about opening the rest of the windows downstairs, filling the house with grey turning, gold turning light.

When life sank down for a moment, the range of experience seemed limitless.

Augustin stood there looking down at him and cursed him speaking slowly clearly bitterly and contemptuously and cursing as steadily as though he were dumping manure on a field lifting it with a dung fork out of a wagon.

O ümitlerdir ki şimdi sefer etmekteyiz, biz o akıntıya karşı giden tekneler, durmadan geriye geçmişe çarpılıp atılsak da ne gam..

How then did it work out, this? How did one judge people, think of them? How did one add up this and that and conclude that it was liking one felt, or disliking?

When a man's neck's in danger, he doesn't stop to think too much about sentiment.

Whenever you feel like criticzing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven´t had the advantages that you've had.

Through the open window the voice of the beauty of the world came murmuring, too softly to hear exactly what it said — but what mattered if the meaning were plain?

Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! said the head. [...] You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you? Close, close, close! I'm the reason why it's no go? Why things are what they are?

His malice was aimed at himself; with shame and contempt he recollected his "cowardice.

The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person.

To understand is to forgive.

She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.