It is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day. Great Expectations
Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side. The Karamazov Brothers
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune ... to lose both seems like carelessness. The importance of Being Earnest
Language is originally and essentially nothing but a system of signs or symbols, which denote real occurrences, or their echo in the human soul. Psychology of the Unconscious
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