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21 " I have noticed that the stoutest pessimists, when fate or men try to take something out of their lives, fight tooth and nail, and cry out as loud as the greatest optimists. "
― Henryk Sienkiewicz , Without Dogma
22 " She prefers simply a life in the shape of an Apollo to that of humpbacked Pulcinello; that is her philosophy. She "
23 " Ah me! what torture to have to deal with virtue, cold and merciless as the letter of the law! "
24 " He who is a sceptic in regard to faith, in regard to science, conservatism, progress, and so on, has indeed difficulty in finding anything to do. In "
25 " Hamlet is the human soul as it was, as it is, and as it will be. In conceiving this drama, Shakspeare overstepped the limit fixed even for genius. I can understand Homer and Dante, studied by the light of their epoch. I can comprehend that they could do what they did; but how an Englishman of the seventeenth century could foreknow psychosis, a science of recent growth, will be to me, in spite of my study of Hamlet, an everlasting mystery. Having "
26 " Besides, my old opinions—at least, the greater part of them—are now in tatters, like a worn-out garment. But "
27 " Walking along the avenues, we had one of the so-called intellectual conversations, which consist a great deal in quoting names of books and authors. "
28 " Aspasia and Xantippe in one. I "
29 " There was only one who understood me, and he understood me wrongly." Miss "
30 " hatred is degenerated love, "
31 " As I have said, I am comparatively speaking calm, do not wish for anything, or expect anything, am resigned in fact to that kind of spiritual paralysis until the time comes when bodily paralysis carries me off, as it carried off my father. "
32 " A very poor man lives upon crumbs, and smiles gratefully—through tears. 6 "
33 " It appears to me that many cultured people are attacked by the same disease. Criticism of ourselves and everything else is corroding our active power; we have no stable basis, no point of issue, no faith in life. "
34 " I renounced complete happiness in order to secure a part of it. "
35 " I feel restless, and something seems to weigh me down. "
36 " Expectancy of anything is always oppressive. When "
37 " If you borrowed the very moonbeams for your head-dress, if you were a hundred times more beautiful than my fancy can paint, you would be as nothing to me,—less than nothing, because an object of aversion. "
38 " Gdybym istotnie przy tej jałowiźnie, przy tej niemocy czynu, posiadał nawet genialne zdolności, to byłbym jakimś szczególnym rodzajem geniusza bez teki. "