Sublime

Je n’approuve jamais quoi que ce soit, et ne désapprouve davantage. C’est prendre dans la vie une attitude absurde. Nous ne sommes pas mis au monde pour combattre nos préjugés moraux. Je ne fais pas attention à ce que disent les gens vulgaires, et je n’interviens jamais dans ce que peuvent faire les gens charmants.

A verdict of death by misadventure was returned.

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

I like the duchess very much, but I don't love her." "And the duchess loves you very much, but she likes you less, so you are excellently matched."

As he looked back upon man moving through history, he was haunted by a feeling of loss. So much had been surrendered! and to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was fear and whose result was a degradation infinitely more terrible than that fancied degradation from

Poor Lydgate! or shall I say, Poor Rosamond! Each lived in a world of which the other knew nothing. It had not occurred to Lydgate that he had been a subject of eager meditation to Rosamond, who had neither any reason for throwing her marriage into distant perspective, nor any pathological studies to divert her mind from that ruminating habit, that

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."

It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.