In this life our sorrows are either not very long or not very great because nature either overcomes them by habits or puts an end to them by sinking under their weight. But in hell the torments cannot be overcome by habit, for while they are of terrible intensity they are at the same time of continual variety, each pain, so to speak, taking fire from another and re-endowing that which has enkindled it with a still fiercer flame. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Accept suffering and achieve atonement through it — that is what you must do. Crime And Punishment

“When you have something to say, silence is a lie.” 12 Rules For Life: An Antidote To Chaos

A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world Northanger Abbey