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“I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure, that had long appeared dead, revive within me. Half surprised by the novelty of these sensations, I allowed myself to be borne away by them, and forgetti...”
“You, you insolent brazen bitchyou really dare to shake that monstrous spear in Fathers face?”
“She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt”
“You arranged everything according to your own taste, and so I got the same tastes as you - or else I pretended to. I am really not quite sure which - I think sometimes the one and sometimes the other.”
“There is remedy for all things except death - Don Quixote De La Mancha”
“Rumours voiced by women come to nothing.”
“I have seen or heard of no other man whom destiny treated with such enmity as it did Philoktetes”
“Out of the unreal shadows of the night comes back the real life that we had known”
“Nobody could catch cold by the sea; nobody wanted appetite by the sea; nobody wanted spirits; nobody wanted strength. Sea air was healing, softening, relaxing -- fortifying and bracing -- seemingly...”
“O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224)”
“nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose”
“Jonah-John-if I had been a Sam, I would have been a Jonah still-not because I have been unlucky for others, but because somebody or something has compelled me to be certain places, at certain times...”
“Men sometimes speak as if the study of the classics would at length make way for more modern and practical studies; but the adventurous student will always study classics, in whatever language they...”
“I liked to call myself a poet and had affected a habit of reading classical texts (in translation, of course I was a lazy student). I would ride the Greyhound for thirty-six hours down from the Mi...”
“He had so long since ceased to direct his life toward any ideal goal, and had confined himself to the pursuit of quotidian satisfactions, that he had come to believe, though without ever formally s...”
“And what does a person with such romantic temperament seek in the study of the classics?"If by romantic you mean solitary and introspective, I think romantics are frequently the best classicists.”
“There are people who, the more you do for them, the less they will do for themseselves.”
“A classic is a book that has never finished what it wants to say.”
“Read the great books, gentlemen, Mr. Monte said one day. Just the great ones. Ignore the others. Theres not enough time.”
“I gather," he added, "that you've never had much time to study the classics?""That is so.""Pity. Pity. You've missed a lot. Everyone should be made to study the classics, if I had my way."Poirot sh...”
