No one to blame!... That was why most people led lives they hated, with people they hated.... How wonderful to have someone to bla...me! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right. You may be fragmented, but you feel absolved of all the blame for it. Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You take my house when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life... When you do take the means whereby I live.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thou gav'st me life, but mortal; for that one Favour I'll make full satisfaction:... For my life mortal, rise from out thy hearse, And take a life immortal from my verse.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you take this life to be simply what old religious folks pretend (I mean the effete, gone to seed in a drought, mere human gall...s stung by the devil once), then all your joy and serenity is reduced to grinning and bearing it. The fact is, you have got to take the world on your shoulders like Atlas, and "put along" with it. You will do this for an idea's sake, and your success will be in proportion to your devotion to ideas. It may make your back ache occasionally, but you will have the satisfaction of hanging it or twirling it to suit yourself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to ...air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »