The chief misery of the decline of the faculties, and a main cause of the irritability that often goes with it, is evidently the i...solation, the lack of customary appreciation and influence, which only the rarest tact and thoughtfulness on the part of others can alleviate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The sense of an entailed disadvantage--the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast,... and easily turns a self-centred, unloving nature into an Ishmaelite. But in the rarer sort, who presently see their own frustrated claim as one among a myriad, the inexorable sorrow takes the form of fellowship and makes the imagination tender.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have often been asked, "Do not people bore you?" I do not understand quite what that means. I suppose the calls of the stupid an...d curious, especially of newspaper reporters, are always inopportune. I also dislike people who try to talk down to my understanding. They are like people who when walking with you try to shorten their steps to suit yours; the hypocrisy in both cases is equally exasperating.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I began to realize that it was bigotry of the worst kind to say that it's better to be dead than to be born retarded or blind or w...ithout a limb. It's a value judgment you're making about someone's life, based on their degree of perfection.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The invalid is a parasite on society. In a certain state it is indecent to go on living. To vegetate on in cowardly dependence on ...physicians and medicaments after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost ought to entail the profound contempt of society.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The sick are parasites on society. In a certain state it is indecent to go on living. To continue vegetating in cowardly dependenc...e on physicians and machinations once the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost ought to occasion a deep contempt within society.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »