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To my mind the most interesting thing in art is the personality of the artist; and if that is singular, I am willing to excuse a thousand faults.
Interesting thought
The faculty for myth is innate in the human race. It seizes with avidity upon any incidents, surprising or mysterious, in the career of those who have at all distinguished themselves from their fellows, and invents a legend to which it then attaches a fanatical belief.
Interesting
Charles Strickland lived obscurely. He made enemies rather than friends.
I see
(their vocabulary suggests that they fingered Roget’s Thesaurus in their cradles)
Hmmm
I felt they expected me to say clever things, and I never could think of any till after the party was over.
True
wanted no one to take notice of me, so that I could observe these famous creatures at my ease and listen to the clever things they said.
Me too
She combined a masculine intelligence with a feminine perversity,
Interesting def
When we left I walked away with Miss Waterford, and the fine day and her new hat persuaded us to saunter through the Park.
Haha
‘Why do nice women marry dull men?’ ‘Because intelligent men won’t marry nice women.’
Hmmmm
Mrs Strickland had the gift of sympathy. It is a charming faculty, but one often abused by those who are conscious of its possession: for there is something ghoulish in the avidity with which they will pounce upon the misfortune of their friends so that they may exercise their dexterity.
Hmmm
There was just that shadowiness about them which you find in people whose lives are part of the social organism, so that they exist in it and by it only.
apt
drink a dish of tea with her.
Desc
I did not then know the besetting sin of woman, the passion to discuss her private affairs with anyone
Interesting
I’m as obstinate as he is, and I’ll never divorce him. I have to think of my children.’ I think she added this to explain her attitude to me, but I thought it was due to a very natural jealousy rather than to maternal solicitude.
Love this description
She was very unhappy, but to excite my sympathy she was able to make a show of her unhappiness.
Description
I had not yet learnt how contradictory is human nature; I did not know how much pose there is in the sincere, how much baseness in the noble, or how
Love this
An appeal to the emotions is little likely to be effectual before luncheon. My own thoughts were then constantly occupied with love, but I never could imagine connubial bliss till after tea.
Haha love
I had the appetite of youth and he of a hardened conscience.
Nicely described
do not care a row of pins
Interesting
I take it that conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation.
thought plus desc
She looked at me with good-humoured contempt.
Dedcription
She saw shrewdly that the world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willingly avoids the sight of distress.
Waw
We were like tram-cars running on their lines from terminus to terminus, and it was possible to calculate
Description
But I knew it was not kindness that prompted the offer. It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
Oh waw yes
He was very emotional, yet his feeling, so easily aroused, had in it something absurd, so that you accepted his kindness, but felt no gratitude.
My godness waw.is that me?
and in the exuberance of his delight sweated at every pore.
Ha nicely told
I could not tell if she loved him. Poor pantaloon, he was not an object to excite love, but the smile in her eyes was affectionate and it was possible that her reserve concealed a very deep feeling. She
Desc
Strickland employed not the rapier of sarcasm but the bludgeon of invective. The attack was so unprovoked that Stroeve, taken unawares, was defenceless. He reminded you of a frightened sheep running aimlessly hither and thither.
Desc
His clothes hung upon him like rags on a scarecrow.
Desc
‘I love her so much better than myself. It seems to me that when vanity comes into love it can only be because really you love yourself best.
Haha waw
It is an emotion which is defenceless against passion.
Desc and great thought
His fingers were long; they were the capable, fashioning fingers of the artist; and I know not what troubling thoughts they excited in her.
Dear god waw desc
That was in his character. He was a man without any conception of gratitude. He had no compassion.
Haha
It was vain to seek the analysis of his emotion.
Waw
who can give me a Roland for my Oliver.
Meaning
The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
Hmmm
‘A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her’, he said, ‘but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.’
meaning
As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
Really?
He was single-hearted in his aim, and to pursue it he was willing to sacrifice not only himself – many can do that – but others. He had a vision.
Interesting
