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There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.
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There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.
You don't even live once. Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein.
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
I'm not sure I'm adult yet.
Your heart just breaks, that's all. But you can't judge or point fingers. You just have to be lucky enough to find someone who appreciates you.
O slavish man! Will you not bear with your own brother, who has God for his Father, as being a son from the same stock, and of the same high descent? But if you chance to be placed in some superior station, will you presently set yourself up for a tyrant?
I'm a procrastinating underachiever at heart.
The conversation soon turned upon fishing, and she heard Mr. Darcy invite him, with the greatest civility, to fish there as often as he chose while he continued in the neighborhood, offering at the same time to supply him with fishing tackle, and pointing out those parts of the stream where there was usually most sport. Mrs. Gardiner, who was walking arm in arm with Elizabeth, gave her a look expressive of her wonder. Elizabeth said nothing, but it gratified her exceedingly; the compliment must be all for herself. Her astonishment, however, was extreme; and continually was she repeating, "Why is he so altered? From what can it proceed? It cannot be for me, it cannot be for my sake that his manners are thus softened. My reproofs at Hunsford could not work such a change as this. It is impossible that he should still love me.
Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.
My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.