I delight in talking politics. I talk them all day. But I can't bear listening to them. I don't know how the unfortunate men in the house stand these long debates.
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I delight in talking politics. I talk them all day. But I can't bear listening to them. I don't know how the unfortunate men in the house stand these long debates.
Men become old, but they never become good.
The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.
There is the same world for all of us, and good and evil, sin and innocence, go through it hand in hand. To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.
At every single moment of one's life, one is going to be no less than what one has been.
Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it.
The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.
I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
There is no fine art without self-consciousness, and self-consciousness and the critical spirit are one.
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.