Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond t...he bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are bare. We are stripped to the bone and we swim in tandem and go up and up... the river, the identical river called Mine and we enter together. No one's alone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requ...ires a love of memory. To remain in touch with the past requires a constant imaginative effort.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To stroll is a science, it is the gastronomy of the eye. To walk is to vegetate, to stroll is to live.... To stroll is to enjoy, i...t is to assume a mind-set, it is to admire the sublime pictures of unhappiness, of love, of joy, of graceful or grotesque portraits; it is to plunge one's vision to the depths of a thousand existences: young, it is to desire everything; old, it is to live the life of the young, to marry their passions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Since time immemorial, one the dry earth, scraped to the bone, of this immeasurable country, a few men travelled ceaselessly, they... owned nothing, but they served no one, free and wretched lords in a strange kingdom. Janine did not know why this idea filled her with a sadness so soft and so vast that she closed her eyes. She only knew that this kingdom, which had always been promised to her would never be her, never again, except at this moment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... until now, it is a mentally isolated, a truely [sic] colonial position, which has been occupied by the women physicians of Ame...rica. When a century shall have elapsed after general intellectual education has become diffused among women; after two or three generations have had increased opportunities for inheritance of trained intellectual aptitudes; after the work of establishing, in the face of resolute opposition, the right to privileged work in addition to the drudgeries imposed by necessity, shall have ceased to preoccupy the energies of women; after selfish monopolies of privilege and advantage shall have broken down; after the rights and capacities of women as individuals shall have received thorough, serious, and practical social recognition; when all these changes shall have been effected for about a hundred years, it will then be possible to perceive results from the admission of women to the profession of medicine, at least as widespread as those now obviously due to their admission to the profession of teaching.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Her face seems ravaged by both lightning and hail. But on yours there is something like the promise of a storm: one day passion wi...ll burn it to the bone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »