The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are... the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the "easy life of the gods" would be a lifeless life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You will not easily get a man to believe that his carnal love for the woman he has made his wife is as high a love as that he felt... for his mother or sister.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I ... once witnessed more ardent emotions between men at an Elks' Rally in Pasadena than they could ever have felt for the type of... woman available to an Elk.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I never learned which party was victorious, nor the cause of the war; but I felt for the rest of that day as if I had had my feeli...ngs excited and harrowed by witnessing the struggle, the ferocity and carnage, of a human battle before my door.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing ...another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... I was crying partly because I felt that this was expected of me, partly from genuine repentance, but partly also because of a ...deeper grief which is peculiar to childhood and not easy to convey: a sense of desolate loneliness and helplessness, of being locked up not only in a hostile world but in a world of good and evil where the rules were such that it was actually not possible for me to keep them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The female part of the Cry (who had many of them often experienced a joyful self- approbation on being told by their admirers that... all their perfection lay in folly and that to prove their wisdom they must shun, as poison, every offered instruction for fear of becoming disagreeable to their lovers) now felt rolling in their bosoms the highest anger and disdain. Not against their adorers for so preposterous a method of flattery, much less against themselves for receiving and being pleased with such absurd adulation: but all their indignation was pointed against Portia for daring to bring into open light the true meaning of such paradoxical stuff.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Taking a good mouthful, I felt as though I had taken liquid fire; the tomato was chile colorado, or red pepper, of the purest kind.... It nearly killed me, and I saw Gómez' eyes twinkle for he saw that his share of supper was increased.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We joined long wagon trains moving south; we met hundreds of wagons going north; the roads east and west were crawling lines of fa...milies traveling under canvas, looking for work, for another foothold somewhere on the land.... The country was ruined, the whole world was ruined; nothing like this had ever happened before. There was no hope, but everyone felt the courage of despair.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »