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Ladies bathed before noon, after their three o-clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft tea-cakes with frosting of sweat and sweet talcolm.

I am in love with what I am doing, because the answer to this problem is right here in my mind, and soon - very soon - it will burst into consciousness.

It is unfortunate for us, that, of some of the greatest men, we know least, and talk most. Homer, Socrates, and Shakespere have, perhaps, contributed more to the intellectual enlightenment of mankind than any other three writers who could be named, and yet the history of all three has given rise to a boundless ocean of discussion, which has left us little save the option of choosing which theory or theories we will follow.

I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known...

For one's children so often gave one's own perceptions a little thrust forwards.

He wished me luk. I hope I have luk. I got my rabits foot and my luky penny and my horshoe. Dr Strauss said dont be so superstishus Charlie. This is sience. I dont know what sience is but they all keep saying it so maybe its something that helps you have good luk.

τέτλαθι δή, κραδίη: καὶ κύντερον ἄλλο ποτ᾽ ἔτλης.-Be patient, my heart: for you have endured things worse than this before.

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. . . .

The only way in which all men in America are equal, is in the courtroom - Atticus

Me gustaba pasear por la Quinta Avenida y elegir a alguna mujer romántica entre la multitud e imaginar que, en cinco minutos, yo entraría en su vida, y que nunca lo sabría nadie ni nadie lo desaprobaría.

No, Jem, io credo che la gente sia di un tipo solo: gente, e basta!"[...]"E' quel che pensavo anch'io quando avevo la tua età" disse infine. "Ma se gli uomini fossero di un tipo solo, come ti spieghi che non vanno mai d'accordo tra loro? Se son tutti uguali perché passano la vita a disprezzarsi a vicenda?

Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism.

Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead. After that my own rule is to let everything alone.

One never gets anything worth having by post.

They said if he’d had two good arms he’d have made it, he was moving that fast. Seventeen bullet holes in him. They didn’t have to shoot him that much.

There was all the difference in the world between this planning airily away from the canvas and actually taking her brush and making the first mark.

I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one.

...it struck her, this was tragedy-- not palls, dust, and the shroud; but children coerced, their spirits subdued.

El hecho de que hayamos perdido cien años antes de empezar no es motivo para que no intentemos vencer.

But who can remember pain, once its over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see.