Enjoy Life

“You hate me; but your abhorrence cannot equal that with which I regard myself.”

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”

“But I felt I had no right to share their intercourse. I had unchained an enemy among them, whose joy it was to shed their blood, and to revel in their groans.”

“Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul both of hope and fear.”

“I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and a breathless horror and disgust filled my heart”

It is so long before the mind can persuade itself that she, whom we saw every day, and whose very existence appeared a part of our own, can have departed for ever - that the brightness of a beloved eye can have been extinguished, and the sound of a voice so familiar and dear to the ear can be hushed, never more to be heard.

My courage and my resolution is firm; but my hopes fluctuate, and my spirits are often depressed.

“When faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.”

“Women are amazing creatures—sweet, soft, gentle, and far more savage than we are.”

“Those who adjust to facts stay alive; those who don’t are dead and no problem.”

“Where do you start explaining when a man’s words show there isn’t anything he understands about a subject, instead is loaded with preconceptions that don’t fit facts and doesn’t even know he has?”

“Easier to get people to hate than to get them to love.”

“I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”

“Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument.”

“How many can he betray? Don’t say he won’t; today they can brainwash any person, and starch and iron and use him.”

“So it is with revolution. Organization must be no larger than necessary—never recruit anyone merely because he wants to join. Nor seek to persuade for the pleasure of having another share your views.”

“don’t care when world ends long as I’m bathed and in clean clothes.”