Everything tends towards catastrophe and collapse. I am interested, geared up and happy. Is it not horrible to be made like this? Never Give In!
The elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
This is a fine saying of Plato: That he who is discoursing about men should look also at earthly things as if he viewed them from some higher place; should look at them... a mixture of all things and an orderly combination of contraries. Book VII
Marriage may be compared to a cage: the birds outside despair to get in and those within despair to get out. Essays
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