“She felt a stealing sense of fatigue as she walked; the sparkle had died out of her, and the taste of life was stale on her lips. She hardly knew what she had been seeking, or why the failure to find it had so blotted the light from her sky: she was only aware of a vague sense of failure, of an inner isolation deeper than the loneliness about her.”
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“Yes, one gets over things. But there are certain memories one can't bit on.”
“The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his future.”
“With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together by ignorance on the one side and hypocrisy on the other.”
“But after a moment a sense of waste and ruin overcame him. There they were, close together and safe and shut in; yet so chained to their separate destinies that they might as well been half the world apart.”
“It's not the kind of tuna that I eat.”
“I write about times and places I would visit in a time machine, like ancient Rome or the Wild West.”
“You shall leave everything you love.”
“Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. [Omnes relinquite spes, o vos intrantes]”
“They had their faces twisted toward their haunches and found it necessary to walk backward, because they could not see ahead of them. ...And since he wanted so to see ahead, he looks behind and walks a backward path.”
“These dwell among the blackest souls,loaded down deep by sins of differing types.If you sink far enough,you'll see them all.”
“Mankind, why do ye set your hearts on things That, of necessity, may not be shared?”
“The sad thing is, I was discovering that you almost have to make a joke of being good to strangers. Up and down the country, these people doing their good deeds were doubtless being seen as slightly eccentric, when in reality and in an ideal world they should be deemed the most normal people of all.”
“Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her left over for anything else. Being human, she suffered from this lack and did what she could to make up for it. If she passed the evening bent over a table in the library and later declared that she had spent that time playing cards, it was as though she had managed to do both those things. Through the lies, she lived vicariously. The lies doubled the little of her existence that was left over from work and augmented the little rag end of her personal life.”
“There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.”
“Suspicion may be no fault, but showing it may be a great one.”
“Most fools think they are only ignorant.”
“Venison and venery defeated me.”
“A dying man can do nothing easy.”
“When about 16 Years of Age, I happened to meet with a Book written by one Tryon, recommending a Vegetable Diet. I determined to go into it.... My refusing to eat Flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity.”