It seems that a woman must become a mother before she can be termed "venerable".
Teach the ignorant as much as you can. Society is to blame for not giving free education; it is responsible for the darkness it creates. The soul in darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness.
The most sublime acts are often the least understood.
To be frightened of the daylight because one can see, and of the darkness because one cannot.
She was beautiful without being too aware of it.
The breaking of links with the past is a painful thing.
Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time. To journey is to be born and die each minute.
Nothing makes a child more secretive than unhappiness.
Watterloo was not a battle but a change in the direction of the world.
Love, let us agree, may be a fault.
To breathe Paris is to preserve one's soul.
Indeed, if our earthly eyes possessed this power of seing into the hearts of others, we would judge men far more surely by their dreams than by their thoughts.
It is possible to conceive of something even more terrible than a hell of suffering, and that is a hell of boredom.
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| Icebound River, Charles Rosen |
