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Apartment in Athens QUOTES

Apartment in Athens QUOTES

1 " However, because death is the only absolute equality among human beings on earth, even the ignoblest and the most welcome instance of it deserves a little ceremonious thought. "

― Glenway Wescott , Apartment in Athens

2 " He thought himself stupid; the contemplation of grief always makes one stupid. "

― Glenway Wescott , Apartment in Athens

3 " She liked to be near him now that she had thought of a way to prove to him that life had taught her to understand and love him. "

― Glenway Wescott , Apartment in Athens

4 " All the disappointments of our life before the war were a fool's paradise. "

― Glenway Wescott , Apartment in Athens

5 " The look in his eyes although it was only hatred was beautiful, like a flower upheld on a bent, spindling, breaking stem. "

― Glenway Wescott , Apartment in Athens

6 " It is never too late for a little happiness even in the shadow of death; "

― Glenway Wescott , Apartment in Athens

7 " Naturally they were not a happy family, but they had good hearts, and did their best to console each other in bereavement and impoverishment. "

― Glenway Wescott , Apartment in Athens

8 " What sickened her was her own hatred, and weariness of being dominated and reminded and misled and disgusted and made a fool of by hatred. "

― Glenway Wescott , Apartment in Athens

9 " She only knew that there was something she did not know. "

― Glenway Wescott , Apartment in Athens

10 " Helianos wanted to accept everything as it appeared on the surface; at least to interpret everything as favorably as he could, as mere kindliness, a wonderful improvement and a great blessing. "

― Glenway Wescott , Apartment in Athens

11 " He was a naturally pacific, sociable man; he liked to think well of his fellow men, even an occupying German officer. "

― Glenway Wescott , Apartment in Athens

12 " What he minded was her general resentfulness and permanent mistrustfulness, now that things were going better. "

― Glenway Wescott , Apartment in Athens

13 " A foreigner naturally would misunderstand the old Hellenic quarrelsomeness, which was essentially democratic, he thought; and flatter himself that it could be taken advantage of. "

― Glenway Wescott , Apartment in Athens

14 " To be German is simply the way we live; it is a love of government and orderliness, for one thing, and confidence in ourselves and in each other. "

― Glenway Wescott , Apartment in Athens

15 " Also it is good to tell my trouble. It relieves my thinking about it, it passes the time, the deadly time. "

― Glenway Wescott , Apartment in Athens

16 " He found himself falsely thinking that one could scarcely begrudge these people the mastery of the world; if they wanted it enough to pay the same price they exacted of others; if they were willing to bring the common suffering and irreparable loss upon themselves as everyone else. "

― Glenway Wescott , Apartment in Athens

17 " Until that moment it had never seriously occurred to him that they were susceptible to the common suffering. "

― Glenway Wescott , Apartment in Athens

18 " But, she fancied, she would not be able to be really unintelligent again, not even if she tried; so much having happened to her. "

― Glenway Wescott , Apartment in Athens

19 " It was a good thing; and to admit that a good thing has derived from an evil thing is to bend the knee to evil to some extent. "

― Glenway Wescott , Apartment in Athens

20 " The look he gave Helianos was one of perfect candor, a little unsure of himself, a little sentimental, seeming to hope that kindness would be repaid with kindness. "

― Glenway Wescott , Apartment in Athens