„"I shall succeed!" he said to himself. So says the gambler; so says the great captain; but the three words that have been the salvation of some few, have been the ruin of many more.“ Le Pere Goriot
The birth of all things is weak and tender; and therefore we should have our eyes intent on beginnings. Essays
People talk sometimes of bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel. The Karamazov Brothers
The beauty of the world which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. A Room of One's Own
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