The compensation of growing old ... was simply this; that the passion remains as strong as ever, but one has gained -- at last! -- the power which adds the supreme flavour to existence -- the power of taking hold of experience, of turning it round, slowly, in the light. Mrs. Dalloway
‘No one but you and one ‘jade’ I have fallen in love with, to my ruin. But being in love doesn't mean loving. You may be in love with a woman and yet hate her. The Karamazov Brothers
Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself. Maxim for Revolutionists
That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds. A Tale of Two Cities
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