my clippings

so my kindle. you know how much i love it. and one of the things i like about it is that i can highlight passages in books that i like. but you know, i hardly ever go back and look at them.

but here i am looking at them. and i thought i'd share some of them with you.

"the dark bitter smile of one who is without hope"

"you have clearly proved, that ignorance, idleness, and vice, are the proper ingredients for qualifying a legislator"

"i have no pocket money and no pockets, and all the stars are my trinkets."

"the face of your friend may be quite different in the dark."

"Some people charge him with talking around in conversation that God was all goodness and would find a way to save all his poor human children. It was a horrible thing to say."

"What an ass you are!" he said. "Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination? No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he seees what a fearful thing it is. Only the mad can be happy, and no many of those."

"The heart breaks when, after having been elated by flattering hopes, it sees all its illusions destroyed."

"ah, sir" replied Caderousse, "we cannot console those who will not be consoled."

"if one's lot is cast among fools, it is necessary to study folly."

"It was like the last feeble echo of a sound made long and long ago."

"Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me."

"Conceal your wounds when you have any; silence is the last oy of the unhappy."

"I am at the age of extravagant hopes,"

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."

"Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast."

"You made your false idol of me, and I had not the courage to come down, show you my wounds, tell you my weaknesses. I was afraid that I might lose your love as I have lost it now."

"There was nothing to say to tragedy that had outlived hope."

"We must be so intelligent that he does not suspect us of being intelligent at all."

"only cold paper and dead words."

"No artist desires to prove anything."

"The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world."

"The moment was lost in vulgar details."

"There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love."

"You could die just the same on a sunny day."

"Successful love may sometimes use the language of flattery, I admit. But hopeless love, dearest, always speaks the truth."

"in considering what Tess was not, he overlooked what she was,"

"Why, you are a man of heart!" "Sometimes," replied Phileas Fogg, quietly; "when i have the time."

"Those were drinking days, and most men drank hard."

"How do you explain him to yourself?"

"he was young, abstract, and therefore cruel,"

"made me cry again, inwardly, - and that is the sharpest crying of all."

"Bygones would never be complete bygones till she was a bygone herself."

"We learn to put our feelings back into ourselves, and to jog on with our duties as patiently as may be. I don't complain of this- I only notice it."

"one can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing."