"I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."

Wisdom, Beauty, World, Ignorance, Life

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"I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."

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"In every situation, we can find sacred lesson."

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"Breathing dreams like air."

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"She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well."

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"Each night when she prepared for bed she smeared her face with some new unguent which she hoped illogically would give back the glow and freshness to her vanishing beauty."

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"First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you."

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"Probably more than any concrete vice or failing Amory despised his own personality - he loathed knowing that to-morrow and the thousand days after he would sell pompously at a compliment and sulk at an ill word like a third-rate musician or a first-class actor."

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"I found something! Courage--just that, courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always."

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"By God, I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me. They meet all kinds of crazy fish."

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"She went out socially with him, but without enthusiasm, devoured already by that eternal inertia which comes to live with each of us one day and stays with us to the end."

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"Now he realized the truth: that sacrifice was no purchase of freedom. It was like a great elective office, it was like an inheritance of power - to certain people at certain times an essential luxury, carrying with it not a guarantee but a responsibility, not a security but an infinite risk. Its very momentum might drag him down to ruin - the passing of the emotional wave that made it possible might leave the one who made it high and dry forever on an island of despair...Sacrifice by its very nature was arrogant and impersonal; sacrifice should be eternally supercilious."

Sacrifice