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"I hope I know my own unworthiness, and that I hate and despise myself and all my fellow-creatures as every practicable Christian should."
Emotion
"When ladies as young, and good, and beautiful as you are," replied the girl steadily, "give away your hearts, love will carry you all lengths--even such as you, who have home, friends, other admireres, everything to fill them. When such as I, who have no certain roof but the coffin-lid, and no friend in sickness or death but the hospital nurse, set our rotten hearts on any man, and let him fill the place that has been a blank through all our wretched lives, who can hope to cure us? Pity us, lady--pity us for having only one feeling of the woman left, and for having that turned, by a heavy judgment, from a comfort and a pride, into a new means of violence and suffering."
Emotion
"We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure."
Mystery
"Time is the greatest and longest-established spinner of all. ... His factory is a secret place his work noiseless and his hands are mutes."
Time
"For certain, neither of them sees a happy Present, as the gate opens and closes, and one goes in, and the other goes away."
Philosophy
"He [Old Mr. Turveydrop] was a fat old gentleman with a false complexion, false teeth, false whiskers, and a wig. He had a fur collar, and he had a padded breast to his coat, which only wanted a star or a broad blue ribbon to be complete. He was pinched in, and swelled out, and got up, and strapped down, as much as he could possibly bear."
Satire
"Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true."
Empathy
"The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities."
Success
"Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips."
Humor
"He was simply and staunchly true to his duty alike in the large case and in the small. So all true souls ever are. So every true soul ever was, ever is, and ever will be. There is nothing little to the really great in spirit."
Duty
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"Hatred may keep a body warm, but it takes a lot to keep the fire stoked, so unless a person is extraordinary in some way, some people are not worth hating, just like they're not worth loving."
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"Milly Brush once might almost have fallen in love with these silences."
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"Oh, I don't wonder babies always cry when they wake up in the night. So often I want to do it too."
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"Don't you get it? You can't tell me what to feel."
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"Though I knew how this failure would hurt you, I had to fold like a grey moth and let go.You could not believe I was more than your echo."
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"Ilse was suffering so keenly that she wanted to arraign the universe at the bar of her pain."
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"I never knew there were so many different ways to say good-bye."
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"Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire and longing; she found joyless days of distasteful occupation harder and harder; she found the image of the intense and varied life she yearned for, and despaired of, becoming more and more importunate."
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"Sometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass; other times, it made her cry a river."
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"I suppose all this sounds very crazy - all these terrible emotions always do sound foolish when we put them into our inadequate words. They are not meant to be spoken - only felt and endured."
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