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It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.

The trouble is that no devastating or redeeming fires have ever burnt in my life ... My life began by flickering out.

The common herd of "burghers", those cattle, complete with horns, who turn millstones with their bare hands.

Love was life's hardest school of all.
p. 259

Yes, and I think I will have enough strength to live and love my whole life through. One without the other is impossible.
p. 265

Yesterday one has wished, to-day one attains the madly longed-for object, and to-morrow one will blush to think that one ever desired it.

But in love, merit is won blindly and unaccountably, and in this blindness and unaccountability lies happiness.
pp. 445-446

What? Do you suppose the intellect can work separately from the heart?

I began life with a quenching of the light of day, and, from the first moment that I realized myself, realized also that I was on the wane.

For, as every one knows, dogs cannot with equanimity see a human being running.

Memories are either the greatest poetry, when they are memories of a vital happiness, or a burning pain, when they touch dried wounds.
p. 479