Was the happiness of knowing these girls really unattainable? It would certainly not have been the first happiness of that sort which I had abandoned all hope of ever enjoying?

With women who do not love us, as with the "dear departed, " the knowledge that there is no hope left does not prevent us from continuing to wait.

...but the loss of a memory, like the omission of a phrase during reading, rather than making for uncertainty, can lead to a premature certainty.

It is a mistake, " Labruyère tells us, "to be in love without an ample fortune.

M. de Charlus persisted in not replying. I thought I could see a smile flicker about his lips: the smile of the man who looks down from a great height on the characters and manners of lesser men.

...for each of us sees clarity only in those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own.

We imagine always when we speak that it is our own ears, our own mind, that are listening.

Listen to the silent whisper of your soul and then let your heart dance with song.

It was the helplessness that scared the both of us.

What do you think of Christmas?""I like it, " she said. "I think we should have it every year.

The person who said that it is lonely at top has no idea what the view looks like from above. ~ Aarush Kashyap

It takes just such painful and terrible things to occur for the great emancipation to take place.

Take the gentle path.

Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.

I'm playing great tennis. I'm enjoying the tour, having fun with the fans off the court. I'm loving it now.

Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?

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