~ Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradle. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which
is yet so invaluable, most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself. ~  ~ Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. ~ ~ It will be all over this day week - comfort - discomfort; and the zest and rush that no engagements, hours, habits give. Then we shall take them up again with more than the zest of traveling. ~ ~ If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
~ ~ To enjoy freedom, if the platitude is pardonable, we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in order to water a single rose-bush; we must train them, exactly and powerfully, here on the very spot. ~ ~ The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. ~ ~ Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day. ~ ~ Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic. ~ ~ It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. ~ ~ It is in our idleness, in our dreams,
that the submerged truth
sometimes comes to the top. ~ ~ When an arguer argues dispassionately he thinks only of the argument. ~ ~ I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose ~ ~ In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us. ~ ~ When a subject is highly controversial... one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold. One can only give one's audience the chance of drawing their own conclusions as they observe the limitations, the prejudices, the idiosyncrasies of the speaker. ~ ~ The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. ~ Most Popular Topics:
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