To be in love is not the same as loving. You can be in love with a woman and still hate her. The Karamazov Brothers
Above all, you can believe in Providence in either of two ways, either as thirst believes in the orange, or as the ass believes in the whip. The Man Who Laughs
It is a lovely night, and they are much to be pitied who have not been taught to feel, in some degree, as you do; who have not, at least, been given a taste for Nature in early life. They lose a great deal. Mansfield Park
No one knows how greatness comes to a man. It may lie in his blackness, sleeping, or it may lance into him like those driven fiery particles from outer space. These things, however, are known about greatness: need gives it life and puts it in action; it never comes without pain; it leaves a man changed, chastened, and exalted at the same time--he can never return to simplicity. Sweet Thursday
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